Lab-made Covid virus draws government scrutiny

Re:Lab-made Covid virus draws government scrutiny by peyton on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#33255868)

The “lab leak hypothesis” refers to the lab literally down the street, as per the WHO report. The lab was moved to that location about a week before the outbreak at the wet market. The WHO report speculates perhaps an accident occurred during the move.

It does not refer to the WIV as you think, again as per the WHO report.

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Re:Lab-made Covid virus draws government scrutiny by jacobolus on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:15PM (#33267413)

This entire conversation (the article, the posts here, and in general the speculation about a lab leak possibility, comments about US grant money, etc. etc.) is explicitly about the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Which WHO report are you thinking of? The 2021 WHO report called the lab leak possibility “extremely unlikely”. This more recent report from 4 months ago merely calls for more investigation into laboratories in the area and more transparency: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/scientific-adv...

If you are interested in Covid origins look at this NPR story from March https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/03/1083751...

Which refers to this paper in Science, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348750/

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