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Could this be how Covid-19 actually started?

by CloudBuddy on 9/21/20, 12:56 AM with 1 comments

  • by smt88 on 9/21/20, 1:13 AM

    Actual headline: "Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?"

    It's a deep dive into the work of Alina Chan[1], an expert in genetic engineering at the Broad Institute[2].

    She has a legitimate scientific background, and the author of the piece is a real journalist, but I don't really have the understanding of biology required to form an opinion. This could all be convincingly-written nonsense.

    My understanding is still that it's essentially impossible for Covid to be an artificial virus, although I guess it could've been a naturally-occurring virus that was brought to a lab before escaping.

    1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alina-chan/

    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Institute