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Coronavirus may have escaped from Chinese Bio Lab

8 pointsby Trisellabout 5 years ago

2 comments

MilnerRouteabout 5 years ago
This is in the &quot;LIVING&quot; section of the New York Post. (That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s got all these colloquisms like &quot;Read that again!&quot; and &quot;You heard me right!&quot;)<p>It was written by Steven Mosher, a founding member of &quot;The Committee on the Present Danger: China.&quot; And he&#x27;s flogging a discredited conspiracy theory.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;20&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;2257228&#x2F;scientists-condemn-conspiracy-theories-about-origin-of-coronavirus-outbreak" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.slashdot.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;20&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;2257228&#x2F;scientis...</a>
cjbprimeabout 5 years ago
&gt; And just how many “microbiology labs” are there in China that handle “advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus”?<p>&gt; It turns out that in all of China there is only one. And this one is located in the Chinese city of Wuhan that just happens to be . . . the epicenter of the epidemic.<p>Is it true that bat coronaviruses are BSL-4? I read that they are BSL-2. There are lots of BSL-2 labs.