Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-07-22 14:16:25 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6EF39B6BB34E16DD837881A3E0A80F7A9DC3374EE496DE46E92AD56C70FD8079
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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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