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This is the first I’ve heard of “US links to the Wuhan lab”. What exactly are you referring to?
by mypastself 5y ago
This is the first I’ve heard of “US links to the Wuhan lab”. What exactly are you referring to?
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoProbably means that certain parts of the US government are alleged to have funded GOF research in Wuhan because such research was banned in the US. Whether or not that GOF research created SARS-CoV-2 is far from definitive. Regardless of the answer to that question, the main question really should be if the US should fund research elsewhere that has been banned in the US if there's a realistic chance that the product of such research can end up leaking back to the US where it was banned for safety reasons.
- peteradio 5y agoAre you American?
- strogonoff 5y agoWuhan Institute of Virology has been performing and publishing bat coronavirus research. The research used to (at least partially) be funded by US NIH grant money through an entity called EcoHealth Alliance. A decent summary, albeit a lengthy read (published this summer, but so far still correct AFAIK): https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-... (Personally, I’m not so sure the grant is so damning. Perhaps this research is banned in the US, but as one of the papers published said it “could help prevent a future pandemic”, and either way it has nothing to do with potential BSL-4 non-compliance that could have caused a leak. What is unfortunate is the apparent obstruction of the study of the origins of COVID outbreak.)