Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-07-22 15:47:18 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7673AC8341E290319875085A765CC6EBB141C08B6482B6ECA4AC2B65AD5E10BD
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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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