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The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19
pandemic
Author : hammock
Score : 5 points
Date : 2022-09-15 22:29 UTC (32 minutes ago)
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| hammock wrote:
| An interesting passage doesn't rule out US involvement in a lab
| leak:
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| _> Independent researchers have not yet investigated the US
| laboratories engaged in the laboratory manipulation of SARS-CoV-
| like viruses, nor have they investigated the details of the
| laboratory research that had been underway in Wuhan. Moreover,
| the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has resisted
| disclosing details of the research on SARS-CoV-related viruses
| that it had been supporting, providing extensively redacted
| information only as required by Freedom of Information Act
| lawsuits._
| ChildOfNewDawn wrote:
| It's interesting how Jeffrey Sachs has been pounding the table
| on this. He's not someone who can easily be dismissed as a
| fringe figure.
|
| It's odd how little sense of urgency seems to exist around this
| question. The possibility SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab is
| pretty widely acknowledged as possible or even likely, and yet
| the idea that transparency would be demanded of these labs or
| that anyone could be held accountable has almost no traction at
| all.
| an1sotropy wrote:
| So much good info and retrospection to read through here, but
| just noticed:
|
| _Laboratory, field, modelling, and case studies have shown that
| airborne transmission through the inhalation of a virus-laden
| aerosol is important, if not dominant, for COVID-19_
|
| So stop the wiping everything down, and "social distancing" is
| moot in a closed space. And keep N95/KN95 masks on hand.
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