Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-07-22 07:00:18 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6DC54A038BF8B6B8F8BDAD8174387FA7E8078DF103327FCA98B8EE9E076D7255
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Original Note:
Andersen maintained the possibility of a lab leak as a hypothesis but changed his mind due to the hypothetical lab-origin scenarios turning out to be "largely incompatible with the data." The best existing scientific evidence supports a direct zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421009910 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10096-020-03899-4#Sec2 https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jvi.00365-23
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