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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by lamontcg on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:29PM (#35002994)
Yes, most of the samples were. You don't need live virus in order to sequence.

Which was the problem with all the studies early in 2020 finding SARS-CoV-2 mRNA on surfaces after X hours.

Also the problem with high cycle count rtPCR results long after symptoms have abated.

You can study genomes without ever having to deal with infectious virus, which is vastly simpler.

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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by lazyeye on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:35AM (#35007176)
Whats the point of the extraordinary high levels of bio-security restrictions in these labs then? Wuhan is BSL-4?

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21487

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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by lamontcg on Saturday March 04, 2023 @12:07AM (#35018365)
The fact that they studied infectious virus in the lab doesn't mean that every sample they studied was infectious virus.
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Re:'Potential lab incident': FBI director Wray speaks public... by lazyeye on Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:03AM (#35018620)
Nobody said that.
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