"Scientists from one of the country’s foremost infectious diseases institutes, the Kirby Institute at the University of NSW, have concluded a lab leak cannot be dismissed as a plausible theory for the pandemic’s origin"
Police crack down on clandestine virus lab in a Californian warehouse. The lab featured:
🦠 Tissue samples included HIV, Hepatitis and Covid-19,
🦠 A thousand humanized rats, bioengineered to catch and spread Covid-19,
🦠 800 different chemicals, many categorized as ‘unknown chemicals’
Insider: »An illegal lab in California containing nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice has officials concerned after improperly stored tissue samples were tested and discovered to contain infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis. […]
The makeshift lab contained roughly 30 refrigerators and freezers — some of which were non-operational — as well as incubators, medical testing supplies, and hundreds of mice. Several disease samples tested from the lab included infectious agents like herpes, coronavirus, E. Coli, and malaria, SFist reported.
Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.
The warehouse came under investigation in March after a local code enforcement officer discovered a garden hose attached to a back wall of the building. As officials searched, medical devices that appeared to have been created on-site, such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, were also discovered, NBC News reported.
"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," NBC reported court documents related to the incident said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."
Nearly 800 of the mice found inside the warehouse were euthanized by officials, per NBC. An additional approximately 175 mice were already dead when they were discovered.
"There was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids," KRON4 reported the assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado, said. "Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."«
I guess the conclusion so far is that this underground lab wasn’t meant for bioterrorism, it was just the pharmaceuticals industry working hard to provide us with Covid and pregnancy tests, etc etc, at competitive prices.
It doesn’t exactly reassure me that #lableak would be particularly unlikely as #CovidOrigin.
Police crack down on clandestine virus lab in a Californian warehouse. The lab featured:
🦠 Tissue samples included HIV, Hepatitis and Covid-19,
🦠 A thousand humanized rats, bioengineered to catch and spread Covid-19,
🦠 800 different chemicals, many categorized as ‘unknown chemicals’
> Insider: »An illegal lab in California containing nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice has officials concerned after improperly stored tissue samples were tested and discovered to contain infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis. […]
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> The makeshift lab contained roughly 30 refrigerators and freezers — some of which were non-operational — as well as incubators, medical testing supplies, and hundreds of mice. Several disease samples tested from the lab included infectious agents like herpes, coronavirus, E. Coli, and malaria, SFist reported.
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> Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.
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> The warehouse came under investigation in March after a local code enforcement officer discovered a garden hose attached to a back wall of the building. As officials searched, medical devices that appeared to have been created on-site, such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, were also discovered, NBC News reported.
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> "Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," NBC reported court documents related to the incident said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."
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> Nearly 800 of the mice found inside the warehouse were euthanized by officials, per NBC. An additional approximately 175 mice were already dead when they were discovered.
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> "There was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids," KRON4 reported the assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado, said. "Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."«
Two virologists testified that they remained convinced that the coronavirus was natural in origin and said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci did not exert influence over a study they wrote.
House Republicans used an oversight hearing to accuse former NIH officials Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins of complicity in the COVID pandemic. The loser in this cabaret is science.
The scientific evidence has quite strongly shown that zoonotic spread from a wet market is the most likely cause of the pandemic, with lab leak far less likely. For those who don't want to wade through all the literature, TWIV has an excellent podcast reviewing this. It was done shortly before the intelligence report was released which further shows how weak the evidence for lab leak has been.
Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.
Scientists, Under Fire From Republicans, Defend Fauci and Covid Origins Study (www.nytimes.com)
Two virologists testified that they remained convinced that the coronavirus was natural in origin and said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci did not exert influence over a study they wrote.
House Republicans give a crash course in how to concoct a conspiracy theory about COVID's origin (www.latimes.com)
House Republicans used an oversight hearing to accuse former NIH officials Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins of complicity in the COVID pandemic. The loser in this cabaret is science.
Testimony of Dr. Kristian G. Andersen, PhD | Professor | Scripps Research | Before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic [PDF] (oversight.house.gov)
....Let me categorically say that these allegations are absurd and false.
Why ‘lab-leakers’ are now turning their guns on the US government (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Lab theory evangelists are convinced the lack of evidence in the Covid origins dossier can only be explained by a conspiracy to withhold it
New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild (apnews.com)
Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.