In July 2019, as Ft. Detrick was in shutdown due to several serious biosafety breaches uncovered by the CDC, 2 assisted living facilities at an hour's drive from Ft. Detrick on the interstate linking it to Ralph Baric's university were hit by an unknown respiratory virus.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Baric, the scientist, published a dna modification of a coronavirus to make it more infectious to humans. if his strategies were used to make the pandemic sars-cov-2 virus, it would make sense that it would be similar to his published methods, which are unique because they don't appear to occur in nature.

      This similarity would be visible in the sequenced dna comparison.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Right I was just making the jokey joke funny emoji because I don't understand your scientist words (I actually do follow a lot of that though, thanks for the info)