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> local samples getting destroyed

I think you’re just engaging in conspiracies here.

It’s possible that China’s central CDC ordered the local samples to be destroyed, because the local facility was not authorized or equipped, to handle infectious diseases properly.

Think of it this way. Do you want junior high school kids, handling contaminated biowaste, where the probability or risk of infection is very high.

And this was at the very beginning, when the science behind this virus and disease was not fully known.

It’s safer to throw the samples into a fire furnace, than to risk transporting it or storing it, where its leakage could further infect more people.




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