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>>todd8+(OP)
Once again, I will ask for (what I believe is) an interesting piece of context ...

How many labs like this one are there in the world ? Are there 20,000 of them ? Are there 7 ?

Of the labs like this one in the world, how many of them are doing GoF research on coronaviruses ? 1200 of them ? 1 of them ?

This won't be conclusive but given the reasonable heuristics that I work with, having a sense of these proportions would go a long way ...

>>rsync+5Z
According to Wikipedia there are 56 BSL-4 labs globally, I cant find any good references on the amount of labs (BSL-3/BSL-4) doing GoF research on coronaviruses, but I cant imagine it is a significant amount. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#List_of_BSL-4_...

There is one fascinating article I came across published by Nature in 2017 which has all sorts of innuendo given the state of facts on the ground today. https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...

>>phyalo+Xz1
How many of them had a major incident between September-December 2019?

>>drran+FM1
Probably only one.

There is strong tertiary evidence that patient zero was a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher named Huang YanLing 黃燕玲, this has all been scrubbed from public memory. The wayback archive links still hold up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU (links are at the bottom of the video description).

>>phyalo+i72
Russia says no danger after blast in smallpox lab

A gas cylinder exploded and prompted a fire in a Siberian research facility which houses samples of smallpox, SARS, Ebola and other potentially deadly viruses. Russian officials said there was no threat of contamination.

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-says-no-danger-after-blast-in-s...

>>drran+6r2
Ah very interesting, I had no idea about that. Thanks for sharing.

>>phyalo+Ms2
The first covid-like epidemic was in November 2019 in South part of the Russian Federation, where Vector lab is located: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh11FtfaP0

Turn on subtitles, then select automatic translation -> English in options.

>>drran+Cw2
This seems rather unlikely based on how quickly covid spreads in countries that don't take many precautions or slow to quarantine (like the USA and Russia) . Only countries that lock down fast and decisively like China, Korea, and Taiwan kept it under semblence of control initially.