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Well, here's some cold water on the "it escaped from a Chinese lab" theory:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsod...b-accident

"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT.

Rather, the experts interviewed by NPR all believe that the virus was transmitted between animals and humans in nature, as has happened in previous outbreaks — from Ebola to the Marburg virus — and with other known coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS.

That also throws cold water on the theory that it was related to the Wuhan seafood market, except that may have been one of the early sources of spread.

BC

[BostonCard]

Well, here's some cold water on the "it escaped from a Chinese lab" theory:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsod...b-accident

"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT.

Rather, the experts interviewed by NPR all believe that the virus was transmitted between animals and humans in nature, as has happened in previous outbreaks — from Ebola to the Marburg virus — and with other known coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS.

That also throws cold water on the theory that it was related to the Wuhan seafood market, except that may have been one of the early sources of spread.

BC