6/ Meanwhile you have clearly interested sourcing from those within the Trump orbit pushing anti-China stuff–see eyewitness accounting of the utter crap pushed by Pompeo's State Dept., seeding stories with material from all kinds of sources, some legitimate, others clearly not...
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My apologies. I did not tag you in, and will untag (or more likely, give up on a conversation that's chasing its tail.) The Baric-centered article is useful and interesting, and in my reading still not terribly supportive of lab escape as close to as likely as zoonosis. YMMV.
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I'm with Dr. Akiko Iwasaki on this who essentially said given so little evidence, either way, the real issue isn't trying to assign a faux precision to probabilities but to deeply understand what were the viable paths, and how to address it all as best we can.
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There is no law against using tighter lab security, however, and according to Baric, these viruses deserve it. “I would never argue that WIV1 or SHC014 should be studied at BSL-2, because they can grow in primary human cells”...
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OTOH, this echoes the core TNR argument. But key phrase is "known to be" The genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 does not resemble that of any virus the WIV was known to be culturing in its lab, such as WIV1, and Baric says he still believes a natural spillover is the most likely cause.
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