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Adrian Gibbs's avatar

You state that "The strongest evidence for an October 2019 lab leak is the cell phone report." It is my belief that the strongest evidence that SARS-2 did not jump into the human population at the Wuhan Seafood Market in Dec 2019, or cell phone users in October 2019, is the amazing Bayesian analysis of c.900,000 complete dated genomic sequences by Xia, X. Rooting and Dating Large SARS-CoV-2 Trees by Modeling Evolutionary Rate as a Function of Time. Viruses 2023, 15, 684. https://doi.org/10.3390/ v15030684. Xia's analysis shows that the root of the human pandemic was somewhere unknown in June/July 2019 - the cell phone report merely told us that something nasty was causing disease in enough cell phone users in Wuhan to be noticed, not when it probably started freely evolving in the human population, maybe from a serially cloned laboratory stock.

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Both of them and whoever funded this work, belong in jail.

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