What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted

Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by bruce511 on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:10AM (#36293694)

You don't say which country is "this country" - but from the context I'm assuming China? And sure if it was created in a lab then that opens the door to lots of political questions.

But the source of the virus remains less important to the folk that died from it. They're no less dead because it escaped from a lab than if it came from a wet market.

Responses in every country were different. Which ones were the right ones are valuable lessons moving forward, and anthropologists will be studying that data for decades.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by pclmulqdq on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:51AM (#36294598)

I think OP meant the US. Anthony Fauci was one of the main individuals in the government responsible for sponsoring gain of function research, including funding some of it at the Wuhan institute. It was incredibly odd that a virologist with no public health background (and a very questionable role in past HIV policy) effectively commandeered the CDC's job here, but it makes sense if you think about it as a " cover my ass" move from him.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by cheaprentalyeti on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:48AM (#36312004)

I should have checked in on this thread yesterday, but yes, I meant the US.

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