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Can you also comment on her claim that Delta was a lab leak?
by dqpb 5y ago
Can you also comment on her claim that Delta was a lab leak?
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- Stevvo 5y agoHe doesn't claim the origin of Delta was a lab leak. He claims Delta leaked from a lab in Taiwan.
- djrogers 5y agoYou misread that - there is no claim that delta was initially released by a lab, rather a the known fact that a lab studying delta had an accident. Read the links the author provided.
- sammoody 5y agoThe claim wasn’t that Delta originated from a lab leak but rather that Delta happened to leak from a lab (after the point that it existed in the wild). Additionally, the phylogenetic points from the article would suggest that Delta is of natural origin
- CamperBob2 5y agoShe, and yes, she does need to go back over that sentence and clarify it, because it does read that way.
- dqpb 5y agoThank you, fixed it.
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- dljones 5y agoS/he clarified it now. "[Edited, 5 Jan 2021, to add: Many people have been confused about the statement about delta, so I must have worded it poorly. I’m not saying delta originated in a lab leak. I’m saying delta escaped from a lab late in 2021 where it was being used in research. It’s an example of a research-related lab leak.]"