Berechnung von Wahrscheinlichkeit: Forschende halten Coronaursprung im Labor für möglich
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  • tobi@feddit.deOP
    3·
    3 months ago

    Now researchers are presenting an analysis in the journal “Risk Analysis” in which they examined the likelihood of an unnatural origin for the virus in a laboratory. They come to the conclusion that such a phenomenon could be more likely than a natural one.

  • roho@lemmy.ml
    21·
    3 months ago

    Anyone read the RKI(Robert Koch Institute) files which surfaced in Germany because of FOIA requests? Mainstream is supressing the news, because it contains quite damning info

  • MyPornViewingAccount@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 months ago

    My personal theory:

    It came from the meat market

    and the lab.

    Some janitor was supposed to throw out this dead research whatever, sees money to be made, pops on down a few blocks and sells it.

  • HoustonHenry@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 months ago

    I seem to recall an old story about an illegal lab that was found in California years back, run by a Chinese person who was wanted in Canada at the time (she worked for a college or something). They found lots of live samples of all kinds of deadly crap that she was sending back to china (IIRC, she was sending to Wuhan). Does anyone else remember this?

    Edit- yep, found by accident in 2022, ignored by the CDC…goddammit

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      This? AP News, Aug. 2023: An illicit, Chinese-owned lab fueled conspiracy theories. But officials say it posed no danger

      The discovery last December launched investigations by federal, state and local authorities who found no criminal activity at the medical lab owned by Prestige Biotech Inc., a company registered in Las Vegas, and no evidence of a threat to public health or national security. Nonetheless, it was just the beginning of a case that this summer fueled fears, rumors and conspiracy theories online about China purportedly trying to engineer biological weapons in rural America.

      During a March inspection of the lab in Reedley, a city of about 25,000 people some 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco, officials did find infectious agents in the refrigerators including E. coli, coronavirus, malaria, hepatitis B and C, dengue, chlamydia, human herpes, rubella and HIV.

      But the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there was no sign that the lab was illegally in possession of the materials or had select agents or toxins that could be used as bioweapons.

      “CDC has taken no further action in this matter,” the agency said in an email to The Associated Press, referring further questions to county and state officials.

      Zieba said that early on, state and federal officials advised the city to not share information with the public about the lab, which had been operating illegally in the city since October 22, because the investigation was still ongoing.

      And after California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control checked the air and water and found no threat, she decided to heed that advice.

      “It was fairly quickly apparent to us that there was nothing airborne, nothing in the water, nothing in the sewer system, so our public was safe,” Zieba said. “Had there been any hazard to their safety, we would have immediately notified the public.”

      “What’s frustrating is that we’re focusing on these myths, bioengineered weapons and stuff like that, rather than the real issue, the lack of regulation of these private labs,” Harper said.