The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 ‘is not a laboratory construct’
An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus “is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” with the researchers concluding “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
“There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level,” Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, “so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin.”
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, supported the study’s findings, writing on his blog, “This study leaves little room to refute a natural origin for COVID-19.”
And to that i say..ahem...chapel hill.
I still see nothing to refute that this bat sars virus could have been created in a lab.
Yes it could be nature as that study warned about...or not sincr that study was successful in replicating in a living creature.
There’s nothing that says the Chinese weren’t “handed lemons and turned them into lemonade”. Al the Chinese coming here AFTER the epidemics began may have been to some extent a purposeful attack.
They describe their frantic hand-waving as “plausible”.
Crock of shit.
IBTZ Panda-licker.