Great balanced analysis of Covid origins by @rowanjacobsen
“So far, in fact, there is no hard evidence supporting *any* theory that explains how SARS-CoV-2 wound up in Wuhan. It’s all speculation”
Lab leak still a possibility. And GOF def gotta go!
motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
2/n
Excellent metaphor from @R_H_Ebright:
“actively seeking new viruses in remote places and bringing them back to labs (in densely populated areas) [is like] “looking for a gas leak with a lighted match.”
3/n
The biosecurity expert Lynn Klotz, together with science journalist Edward J. Sylvester, surveyed the CDC’s lab accident data and... later estimated the likelihood of an escaped virus seeding “the very pandemic the researchers claim they are trying to prevent…as high as 27%”
4/n
They wrote, “There is a substantial probability that a pandemic with over 100-million fatalities could be seeded from an undetected lab-acquired infection (LAI), if a single infected lab worker spreads infection as he moves about in the community.”
5/5
Steven Salzberg on GOF moratorium being lifted: “I can’t allow this to go unchallenged. This research is so potentially harmful, and offers such little benefit to society, that I fear that NIH is endangering the trust that Congress places in it.”
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