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Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by jeduehr on Saturday April 10, 2021 @09:20AM (#26761287)
And you also don't have to take my word for it re: China's problem with zoonotic transmission. Here are scientific review articles that demonstrate that consensus:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26654122/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30806904/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16940861/ (this one says wet markets, which probably are an issue, but not as big as initially thought, and probably not the origin of CoV-2)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27726088/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27426214/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30832341/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19906932/

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Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by trevelyan on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:12PM (#26771832)
I don't see the point. We know that zoonotic transmission and natural origin is possible. The question is about how likely it is to be the origin of COV. No-one who has been to Wuhan would expect zoonotic transfer. And certainly not of aersolized bat coronaviruses.

afaict the strongest evidence against lab-origin is the claim that COV was circulating in Italy in early autumn 2019, although I've read lately that the tests claiming this are now apparently suspect. go figure.

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