I wonder if the esteemed doctor would have come to the same conclusion had the data been obtained primarily ie. by his own team, rather than derived from secondary analysis of WHO data.
Recall that the Aylward WHO mission to Wuhan to study this was obstructed and delayed and didnâ(TM)t take place until mid-late February 2020, and Li-Wenliang sounded the alarm on this in Dec 30.
Regardless of whether it originated in a market bat and simply spread as Coronaviridae spp do, or a population was deliberately inoculated from a laboratory derived source, it does not diminish the fact that the save-face culture that CCP administration professed has killed thousands of its own citizens by late action.