China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

Re:China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted page... by TechBro8615 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @07:35PM (#22851858)

It could have escaped from the Wuhan lab and not been a bioweapon. The lab was studying viruses very similar to this one. It’s entirely possible that it leaked out of the lab by way of an accident. In fact, there is precedent for this happening in 2004. [0]

Honestly I’m not sure how Occam’s razor doesn’t suggest that it was released accidentally from one of the only labs in the world studying coronaviruses in bats, given that the lab was within 10km of patient zero.

Also, experts have not reached nearly the level of consensus regarding the origin of the virus as your comment implies. [1] While consensus seems to be against bioweapon, there is much debate as to whether the origin was lab accident or “wet market” as claimed by CCP.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/sars/media/2004-05-19.html

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/experts-know-the-new-coronav...

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Re:China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted page... by Medicalidiot on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:57PM (#22852196)

I'm going to go ahead and say probably not. Viruses that originate in animals spread to humans all the time. One time I had a patient who got pneumonia from lactobacillus gasseri. Do you know where that is commonly from? The lower reproductive system in women; the vagina. Pathogens find themselves all the time in humans that have an n=1. Why don't we constantly have pandemics? Because human to human spread requires very specific genetic changes for that to occur.

How often does this happen because someone was doing research on Coronavirus and it accidently got released from a biosafety level 4 lab? Not often. How often do novel Coronaviruses spread from bats to something to humans? All the damn time.

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