Time to debunk another myth.
Some people are suggesting that you need to be making monstrously large amounts of virus in the lab in order to get infected.
Yet, the times SARS leaked from labs shows us how easy it is to catch it in the lab. One person didn’t even work with SARS.
Some people are suggesting that you need to be making monstrously large amounts of virus in the lab in order to get infected.
Yet, the times SARS leaked from labs shows us how easy it is to catch it in the lab. One person didn’t even work with SARS.
https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1358554244887044097
Another pervasive misunderstanding that even @WHO convened team seemed to have:
“WIV did SARS work at BL4. Nothing can escape from a BL4.”
Incorrect on both counts. All the SARS work & infection experiments were done at BL2/3 all these years and SARS has leaked from BL4 before.
“WIV did SARS work at BL4. Nothing can escape from a BL4.”
Incorrect on both counts. All the SARS work & infection experiments were done at BL2/3 all these years and SARS has leaked from BL4 before.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1358556023468998658
If SARS2 came from a lab, that lab may not have known about it (for a while).
When SARS leaked multiple times from a lab in Beijing, it wasn’t till a month later when people died that they detected the lab escape, 1000+ quarantined, investigators didn’t know how this happened.
When SARS leaked multiple times from a lab in Beijing, it wasn’t till a month later when people died that they detected the lab escape, 1000+ quarantined, investigators didn’t know how this happened.
https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1358560594790670337
The ease of catching SARS2 in the lab (even when you don’t work with covid patient samples or the virus) is one reason why employees in hospital-affiliated buildings are among the first to be vaccinated.
It’s not because they’re making buckets of virus.
npr.org/2021/01/29/961…
It’s not because they’re making buckets of virus.
npr.org/2021/01/29/961…
And with a virus like SARS2 that produces any of a variety of symptoms (if any) among young people (lab workers tend to be younger, many fresh out of undergrad), with an incubation time of up to 2 weeks...
You’re dealing with a very strong lab leak contender.
You’re dealing with a very strong lab leak contender.
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