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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by dmix on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:58PM (#34949957)
Indeed, you don't need such a complicated theory. 3 doctors researching a coronavirus end up in a regional hospital, but before they get ID'd with a virus they interact with others in the local community helping it quietly spread among people with stronger immune systems.

It's a 45min drive between the Hunan market <> WIV building:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/30%C2%B022%E2%80%B235%E2%80%...

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by awb on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:40PM (#34950416)
It’s definitely plausible, but then wouldn’t you expect multiple outbreak sites?

* In and around WIV

* In and around the scientist’s homes, families and neighborhoods

From the news I’ve seen all of the initial known cases were traced back to the market.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by Vecr on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:57PM (#34952056)
Not necessarily. If you look at the nature of superspreading events, it's quite often confined to a single site as opposed to infecting people they meet as they travel. In addition, most of the transmission comes from a minority of infected people, look up "overdispersion".
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