Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by Amezarak on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:56PM
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> Additionally, the closest relative to SARSCov2 that has been identified (RaTG13) was found in a cave in Mojiang county in Yunnan, over 1,000 km away, with no evidence that it was ever studied in the Wuhan lab.
Maybe I'm deeply confused, but the Wuhan lab was reported by NYMag to be the one that discovered RaTG13.
> How Did It Get Out? 1. The Tongguan Mine Shaft in Mojiang, Yunnan, where, in 2013, fragments of RaTG13, the closest known relative of SARSCoV-2, were recovered and transported to the Wuhan Institute of Virology; 2. The Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Shi Zhengli’s team brought the RaTG13 sample, sequenced its genome, then took it out of the freezer several times in recent years;
Maybe I'm deeply confused, but the Wuhan lab was reported by NYMag to be the one that discovered RaTG13.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
> How Did It Get Out? 1. The Tongguan Mine Shaft in Mojiang, Yunnan, where, in 2013, fragments of RaTG13, the closest known relative of SARSCoV-2, were recovered and transported to the Wuhan Institute of Virology; 2. The Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Shi Zhengli’s team brought the RaTG13 sample, sequenced its genome, then took it out of the freezer several times in recent years;