institute of virology who got sick in the fall of 2019, reportedly. what what did you find? well, it s really, quite remarkable, anderson. and thank you for having me on. the minors, in 2012, were tasked with shoveling out a thick layer of bat feces from this mine shaft. they became incredibly ill, you know, with symptoms that, as we learned about them, looked like covid-19, in 2012. the oldest one among them died, first. the disease was fierce, as a master s thesis documented it. it was identified as, somehow, being linked to a bat virus. and the sample from the mine that was taken was, initially, labeled by wuhan institute of virology researchers as something called 4991.