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https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/1678901425571606528Feb 2, KA: "[RF & CD] are much too conflicted to think about this issue straight - to them, the hypothesis of accidental lab escape is so unlikely and not something hey want to consider. The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely."
https://twitter.com/Biorealism/status/1674667015481753602@WHO @mvankerkhove The Proximal Origin authors clearly have a direct line into the @WHO
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1654452303519264768
https://twitter.com/JamesCTobias/status/1674487339765080073Daszak wrote that the rules were "meant for pathogens that occur in humans and might be made more dangerous" so it didn't apply to bat viruses. His belief seemed to be that creating chimera in the lab was less risky than isolating new viruses. Debatable.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1396867751050891267
https://twitter.com/inthebubblepod/status/1642185559207706625@SherylNYT The Wuhan scientists were looking for novel SARS-like viruses & other coronaviruses in the wildlife trade.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1456983229903347713
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1614465211108413441In this proposal that scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology & US collaborators sent to DARPA in early 2018, they said they were looking for rare furin cleavage sites to put in live SARS-like viruses in the lab. They were synthesizing entire genomes & producing viruses.
https://twitter.com/DavidBahry/status/1642818837870686208Comparing the Chinese CDC paper and Worobey/Proximal Origin et al. papers in Science that used the same data, the former makes few assertions while the latter went on @nytimes breaking news with claims of "dispositive" and "incontrovertible" evidence for a market #OriginOfCovid