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In Testimony, Robert Garry Declines To Rule Out That Researchers Brought Ebola To West Africa In 2014

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Robert Garry Testifying

by Jonathan Latham, PhD

Newly released written testimony provided by Robert Garry to the Senate’s Committee on the Origins Of COVID-19 documents him evading questions about whether his institution brought Ebola virus to West Africa prior to the 2014 Ebola outbreak

In testimony supplementing his in-person statements, Garry was asked by the Committee’s Senator Marshall to deny that Ebola could have been brought from central Africa to Kenema, Sierra Leone, where his organisation, the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC), operated from.More

The Future of the Lab Leak Theory

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By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD

This text was originally posted as a Twitter/X thread. We are reposting it (minus a few typos) as a short essay.

1/ Many people on Twitter are, like Nicholas Wade, wondering if the latest DEFUSE grant revelations from @emilyakopp and @USRTK are maybe the last word on the great #covidorigin #lableak debate. They are not.

2/ Why? Because they only deepen the mystery. The short answer is that six hallmark sites of reverse engineering identified by Bruttel et al: (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1) only explain 0.1% or less of the #SARS-CoV-2 genome.More