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This report doesn't include the DNA sequences that were deleted from databases soon after the outbreak. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2021/07/d

• dredmorbius 2y ago
  From that reference: “These data provide no direct evidence to favor either a lab accident or a natural zoonosis,” said Bloom by email, with more explanation in a Twitter thread. “However, they do indicate the importance of continuing to seek new data about the origins and early spread of SARS-CoV-2.” That is, recovered data from the deleted samples also show no close relation between strains from the lab and the COVID-19 outbreak.
• mgraczyk 2y ago
  I think you're confused about which samples you are talking about. The samples discussed in the article you linked to did not come from the lab. You can read your own link to see "They do not provide evidence either for or against either a natural animal origin for the virus or an accidental lab leak"