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Robert T.'s avatar

Frage zu WA1 bzw. ersten registrierten Infektionen in USA und Kanada: Einige Studien ergaben, dass WA1 älter ist als die Wuhan-Markt-Sequenzen. Haslam argumentiert, dass Ausländer ein frühes SARS2-Exemplar in Wuhan aufschnappten und zurück nach USA/Kanada brachten (war aber Mitte Januar 2020). Andere sagen, das Virus war schon länger in Nordamerika. Wie sehen Sie das? Ist WA1 wirklich eine ältere Sequenz?

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Ryan Baker (DC)'s avatar

Absolutely excellent analysis, the best I've read anywhere. The world can really be grateful that there is someone with your world-class expertise who doesn't work for the "dark side".

No doubt at all it's a lab virus, but I'm still wondering though who did what. Was it all China? Just this week former CDC director Redfield stated openly he believes it may have been engineered by Baric: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14094755/Trump-former-CDC-director-makes-bombshell-COVID-claim.html

You write "the only known location where both viruses from Laos and the recipient virus RaTG13 were present is a virology lab in Wuhan", but the USA may also have had excess, right? They collaborated with Wuhan and even did some field trips to Laos. And in Defuse, most of the engineering was meant to be done in the USA. But perhaps they outsourced it or the Chinese did it on their own.

At any rate the evidence you provide concerning contamination in Chinese sequencing facilities and Wuhan engineering fingerprints is quite compelling. Only someone with your level of expertise can put these puzzle pieces together into a coherent story of what happened.

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