For years, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses to be stronger, deadlier, and more transmissible. The bet was that their work would help prevent a global pandemic. But what if it caused one? @nicholsonbaker8 reports nym.ag/389IGD8
"What happened was fairly simple, I’ve come to believe," writes @nicholsonbaker8. "It was an accident. A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out." nym.ag/389IGD8
"We still know very little about the origins of this disease," writes @nicholsonbaker8. "Nevertheless, I think it’s worth offering some historical context for our yearlong medical nightmare." nym.ag/389IGD8
"A lab accident — a dropped flask, a needle prick, a mouse bite, an illegibly labeled bottle — is apolitical," writes @nicholsonbaker8nym.ag/389IGD8
Read more about the reporting and fact-checking of @nicholsonbaker8's exploration of the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic was the result of a lab accident in Wuhan nym.ag/3oelFEG
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Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, started her career as a community organizer — and has a message for today’s young socialists. @freedlander reports nym.ag/2UXpMYK
Once an activist, Wylde came to believe that true power lived not in City Hall but in penthouses on Fifth Avenue and in the private offices of the city’s biggest banks nym.ag/2UXpMYK
By the time Michael Bloomberg took office as mayor, Wylde, the onetime rabble-rouser for the working class, had become a spokeswoman for the interests of Wall Street nym.ag/2UXpMYK