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what's really going on with DoE choosing "lab leak"

Posted by hollywood big shot (aka pickmix) Feb 28 '23, 00:28

"In the meantime, since the original intelligence agency report, there has been new evidence for natural spread. Two related papers published in Science in July 2022 combined epidemiologic methods and genomics to map the earliest known COVID cases. They found that cases centered on one particular live-animal market in Wuhan, China, and that two slightly different variants emerged there within a few weeks. This implies that the virus was mutating in infected animals being sold on-site, rather than originating in research labs across the river. Still, it’s not clear where the first infected animal came from. As an author on one of the papers pointed out, a lab leak is still technically plausible."

one theory has actual scientific evidence. the other has a classified report that nobody outside the government has seen and, apparently, has barely persuaded only one agency

https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/lab-leak-theory-doe-wsj-fauci-covid-origins.html (slate.com)

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Sounds like they're trying to manufacture some bad press about china, potentially to quell them from helping Russia. - Beryllium Feb 28, 01:17 1
- Since its not a virus seen previously, then they would be looking at one they found in the wild, so it was in the wild already... - zeitgeist Feb 28, 01:56

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