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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAustralian scientist who was the only foreigner at the Wuhan virus lab says she never got COVID-19
and doesn't believe the center leaked itAn Australian scientist who was the only remaining foreigner at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has said that she never contracted COVID-19 and doesn't believe the novel coronavirus leaked from the lab.
On Sunday, Bloomberg News published an interview with Danielle Anderson, a 42-year-old expert in bat-borne viruses, who worked at the institute's BSL-4 lab until November 2019.
As Anderson described her workplace: "It's not that it was boring, but it was a regular lab that worked in the same way as any other high-containment lab."
"What people are saying is just not how it is."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/australian-scientist-only-foreigner-wuhan-092221107.html
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Australian scientist who was the only foreigner at the Wuhan virus lab says she never got COVID-19 (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jun 2021
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Johnny2X2X
(24,347 posts)1. Read this on Bloomberg
Very in depth and this person is an expert on bat to human transmission of viruses. She can't rule it out, but it's very unlikely, just like has been stated for a long time. Investigate to rule it out, because the chance is greater than 0, but it's very very unlikely it was a lab leak.
nykym
(3,063 posts)2. A lab leak story
creates a sensation for the news media.
good for their bottom line.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)3. According To The Lab Manager
A few employees did develop gen pop illnesses in November, and experts in the field say it is standard (and prudent) protocol to send people to the hospital for simple testing to confirm it is indeed merely a gen pop illness. This was conflated by some, with no evidence, that they had developed covid symptoms and were hospitalized.