Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-11-30 15:47:47 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 23D253DCD0CE6EA04FA20E20FA5B58B82197398F2E7636650996055A53E4D8B8
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Ebolavirus is present already in the wild. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was already permitted to study Ebola as they're a BSL-4 lab. Substantial evidence suggests COVID-19 originated via spillover from bats to intermediate hosts in wildlife farms/markets, not lab leak https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21487 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
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