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Re:What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis? by warning26 on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:04PM (#31870038)
Ah, of course! I was thinking of this incident specifically, though it seems I remembered the details wrong; the miners who died seemingly did so before the WIV got involved:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

> From 2012 to 2015, WIV researchers identified as many as 293 coronaviruses in and around the mine. (...) The institute in November 2020 disclosed the existence of eight other "SARS-type" coronavirus samples taken from the site.

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Re:What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis? by fortuna86 on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:18AM (#31890817)
> Since the middle of last year, Li's postgraduate thesis has been circulated online as purported evidence that a coronavirus very similar to SARS-CoV-2 could have been infecting humans as early as 2012.

> Some also believe the paper provides circumstantial evidence for broader allegations that WIV had captured, studied and conducted "gain of function" experiments on viruses found in the mine, including RaTG13.

Wow, thank you I haven't seen this before. If true, that's smoking gun stuff.

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