01-30-2020, 02:41 PM
terracore - The 2017 article from Nature I posted earlier in this thread talks about it. https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-c...ns-1.21487
So that's not really what it says, right? SARS escaped inadvertently twice when two different scientists at a Beijing research lab unknowingly contracted the illness and spread it to several others. The research lab was operating with (poorly applied) BL3 protocols and was not a BL4 facility like the one in Wuhan. Also, these incidents were in 2004, less than a month from the declared end of the epidemic so had no real impact on the scope of the outbreak.
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/...0040427-03
I'll skip the whole false analogy fallacy e.g. China makes crap toasters so must make crap Virology centers (but somehow makes millions of high-end Apple products and apparently world-class bioweapons
just to note that CFR is trending lower than SARS and is possibly quite a bit lower as more patients are found that test negative for the virus, but have anti-bodies against it i.e. those that have already been infected & recovered.
So that's not really what it says, right? SARS escaped inadvertently twice when two different scientists at a Beijing research lab unknowingly contracted the illness and spread it to several others. The research lab was operating with (poorly applied) BL3 protocols and was not a BL4 facility like the one in Wuhan. Also, these incidents were in 2004, less than a month from the declared end of the epidemic so had no real impact on the scope of the outbreak.
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/...0040427-03
I'll skip the whole false analogy fallacy e.g. China makes crap toasters so must make crap Virology centers (but somehow makes millions of high-end Apple products and apparently world-class bioweapons
just to note that CFR is trending lower than SARS and is possibly quite a bit lower as more patients are found that test negative for the virus, but have anti-bodies against it i.e. those that have already been infected & recovered.