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But at the time when it was important, in both of these leak events, only extremely few people had died. Not millions.

It was far from the worst accident in human history at that point, it looked like nothing and in America lots of people thought it would never affect us at all.

That's when it came up and when Zhengli had her lab searched and checked their freezers etc.

It's also important to think about the other BSL4 labs around the world they sent tons of samples to. If they were hiding SARS-CoV-2, why wouldn't it have slipped into any of these many thousands of inter-lab samples?

Releases aren't all that common but cross-contamination within and between secure sites actually is.

Why has no one found SARS-2 in any of the samples sent out of Wuhan to Australia, Singapore, Canada, or the US?




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