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The vexing ‘lab leak’ theory on China and the coronavirus Aaron Blake © Thomas Peter/Reuters Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021. It has been said many times that Donald Trump’s presidency was a stress test for democracy. And that’s certainly true. (It’s a reality that very much persists to this date.) But it was also a stress test for those charged with covering it. What do you do when someone bulldozes so many political norms and unwritten rules of political discourse? How do you cover unfounded and specious allegations lodged not from some random Internet commenter, but from the most powerful man in the world? You can fact-check, but do you in the process inadvertently lend them credence? Do you call the claims “baseless” or “con

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