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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by Izkata on Saturday January 25, 2025 @10:36PM (#42827499)
The lab in question is BSL-2* while viruses like this are supposed to be researched in BSL-3*. If it was a lab leak, they were using insufficient safety protocols to keep the virus contained. It also implies they're probably still doing the same for much worse viruses.

*I think these were the levels, I'm going from memory.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by AlotOfReading on Saturday January 25, 2025 @11:34PM (#42827728)
There are two campuses in Wuhan. One has BSL-3 facilities, the other BSL-4. Not all work is done at the highest BSL available for cost and practicality reasons though. American rules were that research on agents in the same classification as COVID is BSL-3, but routine diagnostic work is only BSL-2. Chinese researchers classified both at BSL-2.
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