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What if Covid was just released through bat research? Given the proximity of two bat research facilities to Wuhan, accidental release of a wild virus into human
by monoideism 6y ago
What if Covid was just released through bat research? Given the proximity of two bat research facilities to Wuhan, accidental release of a wild virus into human population seems much more likely than a gain of function scenario.
- gojomo 6y agoThat'd also count as a 'bioerror'. But, what makes you think those Wuhan labs weren't doing gain-of-function research? Or even: inadvertent gain-of-function selection, via other research methods? See the proud tweet about testing ">50 novel" "bat SARS-related CoVs" against "human cells", and using "recombinant viruses/humanized mice to see SARS-like signs, and showing some don’t respond to MAbs, vaccines" that's linked in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25370869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25370869 )