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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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