The “official” theory of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the virus evolved naturally in certain animals from which, sometime in 2019, it became zoonotic — that is, jumped on humans. Unfortunately, at this time, no single animal has been found that carried the very virus at the time of such zoonotic event. Although scientists were able to explain, in purely theoretical and speculative terms, how similar strains of the coronavirus that were found in Chinese bats could naturally evolve outside humans to become the Wuhan coronavirus, there is zero scientific evidence that this actually did happen.
It may also be possible that some strain of coronavirus jumped on humans without causing observable symptoms that would distinguish the infection caused by it from other infections and later evolved into the strain that caused the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is no evidence that such scenario took place, and no renowned scientist seems to entertain such a possibility.
Every doctor I have talked to said it was man made.
An expect on Virus sequencing has said CCV was 3000
Natural mutations away from the closest Bat/Pangolin strain ever found in the wild.
There probably isn’t enough Pangolins left in the world for it to have occurred naturally, even if Horseshoe bat/Pangolin Habitats overlapped (they don’t).
Weird that Wuhan was actually researching both Bat & Pangolin Virus strains, though.