UNC Chapel Hill Level 3 BioLab

https://www.propublica.org/article/near-misses-at-unc-chapel-hills-high-security-lab-illustrate-risk-of-accidents-with-coronaviruses

In November 2015, UNC scientists published a research paper detailing how they had created a lab-made hybrid coronavirus with the potential to infect people. Their experiments involved inserting part of a coronavirus called SHC014-CoV found in Chinese horseshoe bats into a SARS virus to see if the lab-made hybrid virus — called a chimera — could efficiently infect human cells.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787

https://www.propublica.org/article/here-are-six-accidents-unc-researchers-had-with-lab-created-coronaviruses

There have been mouse bites and spills and other mishaps during experiments involving genetically altered coronaviruses at a high-security lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

There was a report of a mysterious lung disease in the US (Ohio) in 2019.  Also EVALI that was blamed on vitamin E in Vap liquid.  Could COVID-19 have first emerged from a lab leak in the US and than purposefully planted in Wuhan, China to hide it?