It’s shady practices like this that fuel conspiracy theories and erode public trust in science.

My mother appears convinced it’s a Chinese medical lab. So, yea.

Well, because it is actually

The county also discovered nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice. Wang Zhaolin, a representative of Prestige Biotech – the company operating the lab – told county investigators that the mice were genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus

I mean if you don’t want conspiracy theories to spread then don’t make them true to begin with