When former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci testified before a House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic on June 3 to share his thoughts about the possible origin of SARS-CoV-2, the idea that sampling from nature and alteration at the Wuhan Institute of Virology returned to the headlines.
For those of us who consider viral genome sequences instead of tea leaves, rumors, and politically expedient explanations, the cave origin-lab leak hypothesis is hardly a surprise – the genetic puzzle pieces have fit for quite some time.
Ruling Out Alternate Explanations Requires Logic and Science
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