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covid may have leaked from Wuhan, but the origins of research have started in the US in UNC-Chapel Hill where there is Biosafety Level 3 high security virology
by slt2021 5y ago
covid may have leaked from Wuhan, but the origins of research have started in the US in UNC-Chapel Hill where there is Biosafety Level 3 high security virology lab.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x
The gain of function for coronaviruses has been successful in UNC-Chapel Hill as of 2015 when other researchers raised alarms that this research is extremely dangerous and US government pulled funding out of this research.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787
After public funding for corononavirus Gain of Function research disappeared, UNC's visiting researchers, scholars, postdocs went back to Wuhan to continue research at Virology Institute.
And the rest is history.
- vanusa 5y agoAnd the rest is history. Speculation, you mean.
- slt2021 5y agoI just presented my interpretation of events based on a couple Nature articles and some other research/news that surfaced during early days of covid spread everybody can form their own opinion based on what is in there
- vanusa 5y agoSure, it's a free planet and all. Just saying -- there's a distinct between forming an opinion based on "what could have" happened -- versus on what we actually know to have happened.