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Re:The theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab may not be fa... by platz on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:54AM (#27105997)
Folks from the This Week in Virology podcast seem pretty convinced it didn't come from the lab.
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Re:The theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab may not be fa... by midef on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:04AM (#27106072)
I haven't heard the podcast. Did they make the distinction between "lab created" and "accidental release?"

Some of Wade's ideas are interesting, but I don't like his guilty-until-proven-innocent tone regarding lab creation.

On the other hand, accidental release is a different matter with clear precedent. It is generally accepted that SARS-CoV originated in animals, yet it also generally accepted that SARS-CoV was accidentally released from multiple laboratories in the early 2000s, resulting in pocket outbreaks:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/

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