Critical read from @amymaxmen. Labs are set up to study viruses affecting their region: "WIV specializes in CoVs because they're found in & around China. 9/10 times, in a new outbreak, you’ll find a lab that will be working on these viruses nearby” nature.com/articles/d4158…
"Kristian Andersen says that Baltimore was incorrect... In SARS-CoV-2, about 3% of the nucleotides encoding arginine are CGG and around 5% of those encoding arginine in the virus that caused the original SARS epidemic are CGG, too."
“This was not some supremely adapted pathogen,” says Joel Wertheim, a molecular epidemiologist at @UCSDHealth
“We want an answer,” says @KindrachukJason “But we may have to keep piecing bits of evidence together as weeks and months and years move forward.”
One bit of evidence came out in @Nature yesterday - Definitive proof that SARSr-CoV reservoir species were live in Wuhan markets leading up to the outbreak. nature.com/articles/s4159…
“It is an actual smoking gun,” said Robert Garry @Tulane of evidence that live animals known to harbor CoVs were present in markets in Wuhan up to the beginning of COVID outbreak. wsj.com/articles/live-…
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