@zeynep has been consistently serious, smart, and straightforward on CoV-2, while simultaneously bucking panicked groupthink. Not easy, that. So it’s great to have her take on the origins. If you want more, she includes further details in her newsletter.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html …
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I wanted to avoid quoting the alarming bits on Twitter … because … Twitter. But this is indeed disturbing: “Nearly every SARS case since the original epidemic has been due to lab leaks — six incidents in three countries, including twice in a single month from a lab in Beijing.”
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And this: “In 2007, foot-and-mouth disease, which can devastate livestock and caused a massive crisis in Britain in 2001, escaped from a drainage pipe leak at an English lab with the highest biosafety rating, BSL-4.”
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