This is more like Ebola II emerged down the street from the National Ebola Center. It's pretty important to find out more.
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Replying to @Pinboard @BeijingPalmer
My main qualm with you is the idea you're promulgating that there's something a priori unlikely about a lab leak origin. Lab leaks are common, zoonotic transfer is common, pandemics are extremely rare. Having an example of the latter gives us nothing solid to reason from
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Replying to @Pinboard @BeijingPalmer
there are zero known instances of a pandemic occurring due to a lab leak, and many known instances of pandemics occurring due to zoonotic transfer. please just stop.
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Otomics Retweeted Trevor Bedford
You should learn more before saying this.https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1400237542100799490 …
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Trevor BedfordVerified account @trvrbOn the other hand, of the recent influenza pandemics (H2N2 in 1957, H3N2 in 1968, H1N1 in 1977, H1N1 in 2009), one of the four (1977 H1N1) is conclusively a reintroduction into the human population via some lab intermediary. Lab accidents do happen. 5/8Show this thread3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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Allison Retweeted Gigi Gronvall
Probably not a “lab accident” but it doesn’t really matter- that’s exactly one ever vs zoonotic diseases emerging ALL THE TIME. Like, people don’t realize.https://twitter.com/ggronvall/status/1399822348942024709 …
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Gigi GronvallVerified account @ggronvallBecause of the attention on COVID-19's origin, many are learning about the mysterious flu season of 1977, the so-called "Russian Flu." It was nearly identical to a 1950's H1N1 strain. It was def not a natural outbreak, but also not likely a lab accident. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01013-15 …Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 1 like -
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Allison Retweeted Amy Maxmen, PhD
I really think a lot of the mess here is people just not understanding the relative frequencies of different events.https://twitter.com/amymaxmen/status/1400169680480792576 …
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Amy Maxmen, PhDVerified account @amymaxmenA man in China was just diagnosed with a novel influenza virus from birds. In May, a Malaysian patient with mysterious pneumonia was infected with a novel coronavirus. https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab456/6278597 … Spillovers happen frequently. Expect it & prepare for it. https://apnews.com/article/china-bird-flu-flu-health-b5862e1d9892b25fdb470abf30432289?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP …2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @fallenigloos @otomics and
(Perhaps a reason to have a bit more trust in the judgements of epidemiologists than those of political journalists/appointees, but what do I know...)
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Replying to @fallenigloos @tw1terstolemyac and
No. I'm a science worker with the ability to understand and join the dialogue. And I agree with the scientists on this article that a lab-related hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory and we shouldn't negelect either of them and investigate both seriously.https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1 …
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Replying to @otomics @fallenigloos and
You Don't Know Me Fernando Retweeted You Don't Know Me Fernando
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You Don't Know Me Fernando @tw1terstolemyacReplying to @tw1terstolemyac @Pinboard and 3 otherslook, virologists and epidemiologists i've talked to aren't going 'it could never be a lab leak', yes, because investigating every possibility is important. but going from 'there's a tiny chance it could have been a lab leak' to 'there's a 50% chance it was a lab leak' is bs2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @tw1terstolemyac @otomics and
literally all i'm saying that going 'it's equally likely that it was a lab leak' is bs
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Respectfully disagree with you here.
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okay but your disagreement is based on some very rare incidents and 'I feel so'. I'm sorry, but that's bullshit.
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