I have to say that if Chinese scientists have been hiding evidence of a natural spillover #OriginOfCovid for months and months instead of immediately sharing such evidence to rule out a lab origin, I’m going to be quite irate.
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“This lack of evidence is disturbing, especially in comparison with past pandemics. In the case of MERS, the intermediate host, the dromedary, was identified nine months after the onset of the pandemic.
Daniel Lucey: “As soon as we started looking, we found”.”
Daniel Lucey: “As soon as we started looking, we found”.”
“In the case of the first SARS, finding this intermediate host was even faster: “In March 2003, we had confirmation that we were dealing with a coronavirus. And in May, we had already found many animal species carrying similar viruses in the markets of Guangdong”
In comparison, finding a proximal animal origin of SARS2 has been like…
The strangest part of the missing proximal origin has been scientists, even some young ones, going “do you remember how long it took us, one hundred years ago, to find the origin of viruses? We still haven’t found the source of viruses that emerged before any of us were alive.”
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