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Only Foreign Wuhan Lab Scientist Plays Down Lab-Leak Theory

"I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus
"The Wuhan Lab and the Gain-of-Function Disagreement"
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Extremely unlikely the virus escaped from a lab
P - The most politically sensitive option we looked at was the virus escaping from a laboratory. We concluded this was extremely unlikely.
P - We visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology .. http://english.whiov.cas.cn/ , which is an impressive research facility, and looks to be run well, with due regard to staff health.
P - We spoke to the scientists there. We heard that scientists’ blood samples, which are routinely taken and stored, were tested for signs they had been infected. No evidence of antibodies to the coronavirus was found. We looked at their biosecurity audits. No evidence.
P - [INSERT: That apparently factual statement would appear to debunk this (possibly pure propaganda) WSJ story. Note there is no mention of antibody tests here. It's 3 days old
Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin
Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab
https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228 ]
P - We looked at the closest virus to SARS-CoV-2 they were working on — the virus RaTG13 .. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2012-7 — which had been detected in caves in southern China where some miners had died seven years previously.
P - But all the scientists had was a genetic sequence for this virus. They hadn’t managed to grow it in culture. While viruses certainly do escape from laboratories, this is rare. So, we concluded it was extremely unlikely this had happened in Wuhan."

That Australian rep on the WHO China mission was Dominic Dwyer. Below is Australian Danielle Anderson's story.

Da Kine 17 touts the WSJ story here ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=164746517

SPEAKING OUT

Lawrence Ukenye

Breaking News Intern
Updated Jun. 28, 2021 6:30AM ET /
Published Jun. 27, 2021 9:24PM ET
Thomas Peter/Reuters

Danielle Anderson, reportedly the only foreign scientist who was working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the coronavirus outbreak began, told Bloomberg News in an interview that she never contracted COVID-19 while working at the facility in late 2019. “If people were sick, I assume that I would have been sick—and I wasn’t,” said Anderson, an Australian virologist. “I was tested for coronavirus in Singapore before I was vaccinated, and had never had it.” Anderson worked at the facility in November 2019 and traveled to Singapore with other scientists who worked at the facility, and recalled no one ever testing positive for the virus. “There was no chatter,” Anderson told Bloomberg. “Scientists are gossipy and excited. There was nothing strange from my point of view going on at that point that would make you think something is going on here.” Anderson said she believes the virus most likely came from a natural source but added that it is possible for viruses to spread from labs. “I’m not naive enough to say I absolutely write this off,” Anderson said of a possible leak.

Read it at Bloomberg

https://www.thedailybeast.com/only-foreign-wuhan-lab-scientist-danielle-anderson-plays-down-lab-leak-theory