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Thursday
Apr232020

SARS-CoV-2 is not a bioweapon

DateThursday, April 23, 2020 at 6:49PM

Coronavirus science simplified: number 5. This article in Nature Medicine used genetic analysis to test the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was generated in a lab as a bioweapon. Spoiler alert: it wasn't. Clear hallmarks of natural evolution and none of the features of a designed virus. Read the original paper, or see the illustrated abstract by Tenmai.

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