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mk · 1470 days ago · link · · parent · post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
But Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, says that gain-of-function studies “have done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics — yet they risked creating an accidental pandemic”. He argues that such experiments should not happen at all.