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Folks from the This Week in Virology podcast seem pretty convinced it didn't come from the lab.
by platz 5y ago
Folks from the This Week in Virology podcast seem pretty convinced it didn't come from the lab.
- midef 5y agoI haven't heard the podcast. Did they make the distinction between "lab created" and "accidental release?" Some of Wade's ideas are interesting, but I don't like his guilty-until-proven-innocent tone regarding lab creation. On the other hand, accidental release is a different matter with clear precedent. It is generally accepted that SARS-CoV originated in animals, yet it also generally accepted that SARS-CoV was accidentally released from multiple laboratories in the early 2000s, resulting in pocket outbreaks: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/
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