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>"Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had b
by DebtDeflation 5y ago
>"Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories."
This is important for another reason that may not be immediately obvious. The WIV (BSL-4) is ~8 miles from the Wuhan Market. There's a BSL-2 lab (the CCDC) that's literally just a few hundred yards from the market. If the lab leak theory is correct, it may have escaped from the latter rather than the former. Or a visiting worker may have inadvertently transmitted it from the former to the latter before it escaped from the latter.
- nraynaud 5y agodo you have a map? I tried to look for things, but it's really hard with the Chinese datum obfuscation. the best I could do was 3km, but I don't recognize anything from google pictures https://imgur.com/KxOT84W https://imgur.com/KxOT84W
- DebtDeflation 5y ago277.73 meters exactly. https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/114720192-5eb8307f-017c-4075-a697-348628da0204.pdf https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/11472... And yes, I checked Google Maps and they are very much obscuring this now (they weren't several months ago when I last checked).
- tim333 5y agothere this https://s.rfi.fr/media/display/2f7b52c0-87b0-11ea-b8a0-005056bff430/Xiao%20Botao%20-%20The%20possible%20origins%20of%20the%202019-nCoV%20virus.pdf https://s.rfi.fr/media/display/2f7b52c0-87b0-11ea-b8a0-00505... the Botao Xiao paper