@Le_Figaro a lab accident has never been a taboo the thing people actually aren't taking seriously is a natural or agricultural origin outside China! there is plenty of β coronavirus in bats in southern Europe, but there's been very little investigation
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@Quazah1 @drsimonegold @DevinNunes not exactly the same, given the Spanish flu ended up with that name due to less media censorship in Spain during WWI. but if you mean "based on a misinterpretation of the origin" then yeah, quite likely. https://t.co/R
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@mgubrud @Virg_785 @1GenieInABottle @PeterDaszak @jfischman the hypotheses that it started in Europe is substantially more plausible than it starting in a lab. "Molecular identification of Betacoronavirus in bats from Sardinia (Italy): first detection and
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@Ayjchan @WHO @MonaRahalkar And detected no beta sars-covs. The workers had pneumonia. And this species of bat was later identified to be a host of beta sars-covs in Europe. https://t.co/0WuWcED3Iu