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Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points (nytimes.com)
13 points by jeffwass on June 4, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


No one will ever know for sure, as the CCP has been keen on burying any evidence in either direction, I suppose just in case it might make them look bad.

That said, it just seems like too much of a coincidence that it would not be a lab leak. A novel coronavirus pandemic just happens to start right near a lab with documented safety lapses that happens to study novel coronaviruses.


I saw this article on NY Times this morning.

It is a provocative title, but the author Alina Chan seems legit. She’s a molecular biologist who recently completed her postdoc at the Broad Institute at Harvard & MIT, studying the genetic evolution of SARS-CoV-2.

A page about Alina and her work at Broad Institute (FYI it’s a fundraising page): https://giving.broadinstitute.org/broadignite/team/alina-cha...

Her Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uK5VWiYAAAAJ&hl=en

Not all scientists agree with her on the laboratory outbreak theory, Wikipedia page has some info on this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Chan


How the Times have changed...

> 2020 / 21 May: New York Times depicts the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a victim of “conspiracy theories”

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656




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