Please do better, @NatureNV
If your stance is to counter misinformation and focus on the science, the section pictured below needs to be majorly corrected.
By "broader region," did your journalists mean China or Asia? If so, you can see how this would lead to misunderstandings.
If your stance is to counter misinformation and focus on the science, the section pictured below needs to be majorly corrected.
By "broader region," did your journalists mean China or Asia? If so, you can see how this would lead to misunderstandings.
https://twitter.com/Biol4Ever/status/1405102946052886529
@NatureNV I know it's very troubling that the one place a SARS-like pandemic-level pathogen emerges is the one place in China where there is a giant repository of SARS-like viruses collected from across China.
But it's irresponsible to play it down by saying "but China has coronaviruses!"
But it's irresponsible to play it down by saying "but China has coronaviruses!"
@NatureNV To study these SARS-like viruses with potential to spill into humans, the Wuhan lab had to send dozens of its personnel into remote caves and villages in South China to specifically mine for these viruses and bring 10,000s of animal and human samples ~1000 miles back to Wuhan.
I'd say that it is suspicious that the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 appeared in Wuhan city of all places in China.
A country with 1.4 billion people, 687 cities, spread out across 3.7 million mi².
A country with 1.4 billion people, 687 cities, spread out across 3.7 million mi².
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