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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by krona on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:03AM (#42828865)
The main database of samples and viral sequences of the Wuhan Institute of Virology went offline on Sep 12th 2019.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by throwaway290 on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:08AM (#42828881)
That's a smoking gun. And next month it was likely already circulating in Wuhan (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/first-covid-19-case-coul...), coincidence.

> A joint study published by China and the World Health Organization at the end of March acknowledged there could have been sporadic human infections before the Wuhan outbreak.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by oneshtein on Sunday January 26, 2025 @07:11AM (#42829599)
No, it doesn't. Quote from the article:

> Researchers from Britain's University of Kent used methods from conservation science to estimate that SARS-CoV-2 first appeared from early October to mid-November 2019, according to a paper published in the PLOS Pathogens journal.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by mitjam on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:23PM (#42833085)
Satellite images of Wuhan may suggest coronavirus was spreading as early as August 2019:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52975934.amp

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/08/health/satellite-pics-cor...

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by throwaway290 on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:26AM (#42838314)
Would it mean it was active earlier but a critical mass was needed to cause a pandemic? Or it evolved in humans while circulating Wuhan?
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