“Half-truths and distorted information have obscured an accurate accounting of the lab's functions and activities, which were more routine than how they’ve been portrayed in the media, she said.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
“The concrete, bunker-style building has the highest biosafety designation, and requires air, water and waste to be filtered and sterilized before it leaves the facility.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
“There were strict protocols and requirements aimed at containing the pathogens being studied, Anderson said, and researchers underwent 45 hours of training to be certified to work independently in the lab.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
👏45 👏hours 👏of 👏training👏
“Anderson said no one she knew at the Wuhan institute was ill toward the end of 2019. Moreover, there is a procedure for reporting symptoms that correspond with the pathogens handled in high-risk containment labs.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
“If people were sick, I assume that I would have been sick—and I wasn’t,” she said “I was tested for coronavirus in Singapore before I was vaccinated, and had never had it”
...ie if the 🦠 was spreading in the lab, there’d be signs of asymptomatic cases. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
...ie if the 🦠 was spreading in the lab, there’d be signs of asymptomatic cases. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Re GOF: “Getting authorization to create a virus in this way typically requires many layers of approval, and there are scientific best practices that put strict limits on this kind of work.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…
“Even if such a gain of function effort got clearance, it’s hard to achieve, Anderson said. The technique is called reverse genetics.
“It’s exceedingly difficult to actually make it work when you want it to work,” she said.“ bloomberg.com/news/features/…
“It’s exceedingly difficult to actually make it work when you want it to work,” she said.“ bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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