Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says

Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by colechristensen on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:28PM (#34949662)

This supposes way too much intention that can much more easily be explained by incompetence.

A lab doing questionable work with inadequate safety measures hiding a major leak to save face makes way more sense than a supervillain story.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by baja_blast on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:47PM (#34949865)

And when you add in the fact that virology work on unknown wild SARS like viruses were scheduled for only BSL2. And the vast majority of research published on sampled SARS like viruses was conducted in BSL2 labs it very easy to imagine a researcher unwittingly getting infected from a human mice model carrying a wild virus with a human optimized FCS inserted.

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