It's sad that more than six months into the #COVID19 pandemic, we still have to refute the conspiracy theory that #SARSCoV2 was made in a lab.https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/07/13/heres-how-scientists-know-the-coronavirus-wasnt-made-in-a-lab/ …
Yes. Yes it is, because there is nothing—I repeat, nothing—in the nucleotide sequence of #SARSCoV2 that suggests the coronavirus was engineered in the lab. This was known in March.

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Gain of function manipulation would look just like what we see, a virus that gained a mutation from another virus potentially via a non-cohabiting spices from the original source. WuHan lab was conducting GOF with an ancestor to SARS-Cov2 next to the wet market


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Regarding the RaTG13 spike mutation: "This sort of event, known as recombination, can occur naturally, for example when two viruses infect an intermediate host animal, or can be man-made."https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/covid-causing-virus-not-likely-to-have-come-just-from-bat-virus …
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