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@WebMD_BrendaG Chinese official state media video of December 2019 shows Wuhan CDC staffer collecting novel bat coronaviruses with inadequate PPE (bare skin on face, bare skin on wrists, no googles, no faceshield).

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@WebMD_BrendaG Chinese official state media news report of May 2017 describes Wuhan CDC staffer collecting novel bat coronaviruses with no PPE ("forgot"), skin contact with bat urine, skin contact with bat blood, and self-quarantine.

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@WebMD_BrendaG Bat coronaviruses at Wuhan CDC and Wuhan Institute of Virology were handled at BSL-2...instead of at the much higher biosafety levels required for safe culture, isolation, and animal-infection work with a virus having the transmission characteristics of the outbreak virus.
@WebMD_BrendaG Performing field collection, culture, isolation, or animal infection work at BSL-2 with a virus having the transmission characteristics of the outbreak virus would be highly likely--almost certain--to result in infection of lab worker, and from there, infection of public.
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