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2023-12-11 07:59:41 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 933BC8B81ECE1042F9D8E24D885081DBF754051867C66713A1DE78AD494FC506
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Original Note:
No evidence of a Wuhan Institute for Virology lab leak during Q3 2019. The only BSL4 Virology Institute that had any contamination risk was an explosion at the BEKTOP Sept 2019. www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/health/russia-lab-explosion-smallpox-intl-hnk/index.html First confirmed outbreak was "four cases... first week of October... got infected in September" www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing/researchers-find-coronavirus-was-circulating-in-italy-earlier-than-thought-idUSKBN27W1J2/
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