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It is well established that bats were kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that Dr Shi Zhengli's lab worked with live bats. This was covered in @zeynep @nytimes piece in 2021.
People claiming that this is disinformation need to be fact checked.
nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opi…
People claiming that this is disinformation need to be fact checked.
nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opi…
@zeynep @nytimes From an archived interview:
"The research team caught a few bats from the wild to be used as experimental animals.. During the Spring Festival this year, the students all went home on vacation, and Teacher Shi silently undertook the task of raising bats."
archive.is/DmL4g
"The research team caught a few bats from the wild to be used as experimental animals.. During the Spring Festival this year, the students all went home on vacation, and Teacher Shi silently undertook the task of raising bats."
archive.is/DmL4g
The surprising thing to me is that this work with live bats had already been ongoing in 2009. A whole decade before Covid-19.
Note: Based on the recent positions of experts leaning toward natural #OriginOfCovid, if a bat infected a lab personnel in the lab with Covid-19 it would not be a lab leak but a zoonosis.
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