I suspect that @maggiekb1 was referring to China as the place where a lot of disease crossovers happen. Wuhan meanwhile is the biggest transportation hub in China. 2+2 = ...
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I muted that thread eons ago. Sorry.
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Lots of virologists in Asia study coronaviruses + influenza because they're common. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466186/ … Those in Africa often study viruses causing hemorrhagic disease because it's common. A top lab on hemorrhagic viruses is around the very spot where Ebola emerged.
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Why didn't you just DM her? Because it looks like the replies to your first tweet are serving as a magnet for...::clears throat::...a certain side of this debate.
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She doesn't follow me and I don't follow her and didn't occur to me, to be honest because I don't DM people like that. Yeah nothing about this can be discussed on Twitter lately, will probably delete the thread (more to avoid a pile-on for her?). Probably should have emailed.
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Dr Shi had started working at the WIV before the first SARS epidemic in Guangdong and, of course, before her group pivoted to SARS research. That's why they had to make so many trips down South to collect thousands of samples, bringing these up to Wuhan. https://www.ws-virology.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CV_SHI-ZL-2018_ASM.pdf …
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The reason why China's first BSL4 was built in Wuhan also had nothing to do with spillovers or disease prevalence in the city but because Wuhan city had the most French businesses and connections in all of China.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-lab/france-says-no-evidence-covid-19-linked-to-wuhan-research-lab-idUSKBN21Z2ME …
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