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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by dehrmann on Saturday January 25, 2025 @10:35PM (#42827493)
There are 42 BSL-4 facilities in the world. I'm too lazy to do the math, but I'm curious what percent of the world's population is near one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#List_of_BSL-4_...

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by oneshtein on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:31AM (#42827955)
One of these BSL4 had major incident on Sep 16 2019, just before start of epidemic.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by wk_end on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:26AM (#42828423)
If the work on coronaviruses that WIV was doing was at BSL-4, I'd be more skeptical of a lab leak origin. It was being done at BSL-2; see Ralph Baric's testimony covered in this Vanity Fair article:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ralph-baric-wuhan-lab-...

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