Odds of lab leak just rose.
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Not at all. The sequences in question are all collected from people in places like the Wuhan market where the outbreak is thought to have started, and nearby neighborhoods. This has nothing to do with the Wuhan lab.
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Replying to @tonytribby @zeynep
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The problem here is that the Chinese government acts this way about *everything*. The doctor in China who first tried to warn people there was an outbreak was disciplined for doing so. It doesn't mean there was a lab leak, more likely they fear being sanctioned for negligence.
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I agree, to me this data makes it more likely that the progenitor was a random mutation/recombination event, given the number of coronaviruses already in circulation in the area.
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What bat coronaviruses circulating in the area? Amazing how people make stuff up. When Dr. Shi needed people not negative for bat coronaviruses to use as negative control, they used the Wuhan population exactly because of lack of bat exposure. The amount of misinformation....
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Ecohealth Alliance and Duke-NUS found bat coronaviruses in caves in Hubei back in 2007. Presumably it’s still there.
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Correction - Linfa Wang wasn’t at Duke-NUS yet, he was in Hong Kong.
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Wuhan IS A MODERN CITY OF ELEVEN MILLION, not some bat habitat area. Again: when the Wuhan lab researchers need people not exposed to bat viruses to use as control against people who may be... They use the population of Wuhan. The pretzeling about this has been pretty impressive.
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Singapore is too, but you can field trap bats there & do virology studies. Urban populations will definitely have lower exposure per capita, but not zero.
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Parody account? Anyway, either way.
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