I deleted my earlier tweets about the origins of the pandemic because they were badly phrased. The origin of the pandemic is an important line of reporting that my colleagues are covering aggressively.
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Fair with regard to lab leak theory but what compelling evidence is there specific to it being zoonotic at this stage? Certainly history can be a useful guide but may not always be applicable. Point being: equal weighting should apply to each theory in the absence of evidence.
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The fact that similar viruses exist in the wild and the first SARS epidemic started the same way, for one.
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