The COVID-19 pandemic continues due to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19. Unfortunately and predictably, baseless claims spread on the origin of SARS-CoV-2, just as conspiracy theories also spread on the origin of the AIDS pandemic caused by the virus HIV. These claims center on the conspiracist idea that SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab, instead of naturally evolving and spreading completely outside of a lab. The sources below undermine this idea in its various forms.
