The only reason we should care if 3 WIV staffers went to the doctor with flu symptoms in flu season is if they could have been Patients Zero--the very first cluster of Covid from a lab leak.
Hey, since I'm tagged here (feel free to untag me!) maybe these names ring a bell in terms of directing concerns? (These are only "changed mind" list—bat coronavirus work at BSL-2 has been raised as a concern many times, so I'm not saying something that's unusual).pic.twitter.com/SRUabZU7FE
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BSL-2 standards for bat coronavirus research are nothing like a dentist's office. Under BSL-2 standards those viruses are to be handled in a biosafety cabinet, a device unknown in a dentist's office.
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The dentist office comparison is a talking point that Ebright, a political opponent of GOF research, uses because it makes for good copy, not because it's an accurate representation of the guidelines for altered bat CoV research.
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