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Thorough, detailed reporting by @Arbuthnott into the work of the Wuhan Institute of Virology - with one or two minor errors, eg picture of fruit bats, not horseshoe bats; and in places not enough credit to the work of others.
The most interesting new revelations are: (thread)
The most interesting new revelations are: (thread)
https://twitter.com/Arbuthnott/status/1667582815750307840
“They were working with the 9 different Covid variants,” one of the investigators said. They believe one virus at the WIV was an even closer match to Covid-19 than RaTG13. “We are confident they were working on a closer unpublished variant — possibly collected in Mojiang,”
“We were rock-solid confident that [illness of 3 researchers] was likely Covid-19 because they were working on advanced coronavirus research in the laboratory of Dr Shi. They’re trained biologists in their thirties and forties. 35yo scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.”
"When they arrived, they were told the Moijang mine was closed, so they sampled bats in another abandoned copper mine nearby. On the first day of their work, police arrived, seized the samples and took them to their station, where they were interrogated and detained for 48 hours"
"Eventually, there was a total clampdown on Covid origin work. Searching for bat viruses was banned in Yunnan in early 2021 and new restrictions on foreign researchers made it difficult for [Alice] Hughes to continue her work."
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