https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/103341
Wuhan is a city of 11 million people and Hubei province has bat caves and active farms and animal markets. He's acting like SARS never happened. Zoonotic spillover is entirely plausible.
The US funded an Ecohealth grant with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but all of the viruses involved in that research were too distant to be progenitors to SARS-COV-2.
As for children and COVID, roughly half of hospitalizations involve children with no known comorbidities and otherwise healthy children have died. They also have gotten MIS-C.
"That there is debate at all over the origins is due to the U.S. funding the lab, a connection that is "embarrassing" for the government to acknowledge, he argued. "The epicenter of the world [outbreak] is 5 miles from one of the only high-level virology labs in China ... It's a no-brainer that it came from the lab. I mean, at this point, it's impossible to acquire any more information, and if you did, it would only be affirmative."
""Has any young healthy child died in the United States of COVID in the last 3 years?" Makary said. Whatever the number is, "[it's] far less than other common respiratory viruses."
I don't expect much from this Congress on COVID origins given these are the people they are calling to speak to their committees.