On the surface, Prof Gao's comments about not ruling out a lab leak appear seriously at odds with China's publicly stated position. Risky even.
"We really don't know where the virus came from… the question is still open," Prof Gao told the BBC
3. "Proximal Origin of Sars-Cov-2"
Lipkin (one of the authors) said he now doubts the strength of that earlier conclusion & ruling out any lab-based scenario was putting it too strongly.
"He volunteers a theory of his own, pointing to another Wuhan laboratory - run by the WCDC"
4. Where did Covid come from?
China has not done enough to look for evidence or share it & though it may seem like a simple question, it's anything but
"For every life lost, for everyone who's suffered & who continue to suffer, the answer matters"
1. Heinz Felfe was head of the Soviet counter-intelligence Department & ran a long running project called "Panoptikum" to uncover a high level "mole" within the West German Intelligence Service...
In the end, the target of "Panoptikum" would turn out to be Heinz Felfe himself!
2. His Memoirs (in German)
Heinz Felfe published his memoir in 1986 under the title "In the Service of the enemy: Ten years as Moscow's man in the Federal Intelligence Service"
"During initial stages of a forensic investigation of Wuhan Labs, all 4 evaluation tools including Grunow & Finke's epidemiological assessment criteria would be useful adjuncts to the investigation framework of Pilch et al."
"The Radosavljevic–Belojevic method for outbreak scoring & differentiation shows that official assumptions of its natural origin is questionable & highlights the probability that the pathogen was "accidentally" introduced to humans"
@tgof137 @Rebecca21951651 @_everythingism @AtomsksSanakan @CallumJCParr @jhas5 1. It is best to do your own reading & consult the research of others, such as #DRASTIC, who published all the most accurate details on labs, locations, engineering flaws, viral databases, field sampling of bats, lack of proper biosafety, etc. years ago: