State Dept cables raised safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses

by haltingproblem on 4/14/2020, 5:14 PM with 6 comments
  • by haltingproblem on 4/14/2020, 5:30 PM

    OP here. One subtle distinction - lab origin does not necessarily mean engineered. It can also just mean a lab employee got infected while handling and then was a vector for one or many human to human transmission.

    Intuitively that transmission vector appears to be higher probability than zoonotic transmission (animal to human). Just my intuition.

  • by maallooc on 4/14/2020, 5:21 PM