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Lab Safety

The WIV has a documented issue with poor safety practices.

Vanity Fair and ProPublica downloaded more than 500 documents from the WIV website, including party branch dispatches from 2017 to the present. To assess Reid’s interpretation, we sent key documents to experts on CCP communications. They told us that the WIV dispatches did indeed signal that the institute faced an acute safety emergency in November 2019; that officials at the highest levels of the Chinese government weighed in; and that urgent action was taken in an effort to address ongoing safety issues. The documents do not make clear who was responsible for the crisis, which laboratory it affected specifically or what the exact nature of the biosafety emergency was. https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab

Why is this not in the article? DarrellWinkler (talk) 19:54, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Because multiple reputable sources have disagreed with the content and interpretations of this report. We don't report things that are reported as true from one place, and then probably not true from dozens of other places. That is the long and short of WP:RSUW. Basically, we have a good consensus on-wiki that this report is not a reliable source. — Shibbolethink ^{(♔ ♕)} 16:10, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Which sources disagreed with the content and interpretations of this report? Are there really "dozens" of other sources that disagree with this? DarrellWinkler (talk) 17:10, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

WSJ Article

U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak

A prominent scientist who worked on coronavirus projects funded by the U.S. government is one of three Chinese researchers who became sick with an unspecified illness during the initial outbreak of Covid-19, according to current and former U.S. officials. 73.36.184.146 (talk) 03:11, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Useless. This is an encyclopaedia, not a doctor's diary. — kashmīrī ^TALK 08:47, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Animal Source Hyphothesis

A lot of time has gone by since the start of the pandemic. At this point, we can say a few things with extreme confidence:

- Patient zero was a chinese man in Wuhan 2019;

- Food sold at the Wuhan Seafood market showed clear signs of coronavirus contamination;

- However, there is NO EVIDENCE OF THE VIRUS COMING FROM BATS OR RACOONS OR WHATEVER.[1]

To make a long story short, the Nature article presented explains the results of multiple studies and concludes that non of them could confirm that animals in Wuhan were infected with SARS-CoV-2 - as in infected with the virus before their death.

At this point, it is indeed very wierd that the "Lab leak" hyphothesis is still labed as conspiratorial and "unsubstanciated speculation". Kabagocan (talk) 15:07, 29 November 2024 (UTC)