COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

I thought I had read that it was determined that this was a natural virus and not engineered

I don't know how you tell the difference but apparently you can and they did

This was two or three weeks ago

I'll see if I can find the article
The argument is not that it was engineered.

Was the lab doing tests on horseshoe bats studying the virus and escape from there?
Did China know this and cover it up? Could the spread of the virus been better contained in the early days of the spread if the government knew this information?
Were doctors told to stop publicizing information about the virus early on, including that it’s spread from human to human ?

The answers to these questions and many others would go a long way in preventing this from happening again.