A new analysis by a team of international experts adds to evidence suggesting that the pandemic began when animals at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, spread the coronavirus to people. But there's a problem: Other researchers can't scrutinize the genetic sequences it's based on.
This data needs to be made public. And if China won't do it, then someone else must - either those who run the platform where the data was fleetingly available or the team that did the new analysis - even though, among scientists, releasing other people's data is tantamount to theft.