“We were asked where we wanted to go. We gave our hosts a list ... and you can see from where we’ve been, we’ve been to all the key places,” Daszak said.
“Every place we asked to see, everyone we wanted to meet. ... So really good,”
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE
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"Daszak said the team has now concluded site visits and will spend the next few days trolling"
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“The pressure for this institution I’m sure has been intense so it was really good to have, not just me, but this whole group of international experts be able to ask really insightful questions and also to have all the key people in the room when we did that,” Daszak said.
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“So this is an in-depth, deep understanding of the sites and the people who were involved,” Daszak said.
"They had retrospectively tested serum from their staff. They tested samples from early 2019 and from 2020."
So no samples from between early 2019 and, I'm guessing, August 2020, which iirc is when they tested everyone? @BillyBostickson
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"Yes, lab accidents do happen around the world; they have happened in the past. The fact that several laboratories of relevance are in and around Wuhan, and are working with coronavirus, is another fact. Beyond that..."
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BSL-4 laboratories are designed to effectively seal off experiment areas from the outside world. They also incorporate strict security measures, such as iris scanners.
"It is highly likely that an intermediate animal host was involved and transmitted the virus to humans, accounting for the 3.8% difference in genome," he says.