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1. 2021-03-29 16:25 Edward C. Holmes open
   As did we Kristian. I think I would be more bothered if she had not considered the possibility. To me, she comes across as honest.
2. 2021-03-29 16:26 Edward C. Holmes open
   What do you make of that ACE2 stuff? If all their staff are negative then it's game over....unless there's been massive cover-up.
3. 2021-03-29 16:28 Kristian G. Andersen open
   "her laboratory used recombinant viruses to test whether bat CoVs could use ACE2 to bind but used bat spike protein on *a bat-CoV backbone*, not human SARS" Which backbone?
4. 2021-03-29 16:29 Kristian G. Andersen open
   "*other researchers* engineered SHC014 spike so did not need isolates for mouse experiments. WIV began recombinant work in 2015 with WIV-1. It received ACE2 mice in 2016 and *started recombinant experiments with WIV +SHC014* in 2018 but did not finish them owing to the COVID outbreak" This might all just be bad writing, but there's a lot of wiggle room in these statements. I'm not really sure how tointerpret them.
5. 2021-03-29 16:32 Edward C. Holmes
   Yes, I couldn't quite follow it either. I guess she means SCH014 which is a SARS-like virus. This accords with her comments to John Cohen that they were only working on SARS-like viruses.
6. 2021-03-29 16:32 Edward C. Holmes open
   Dominic also said that it clear that the intelligence services have nothing.
7. 2021-03-29 16:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Yeah, maybe they're just referring to this? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/
8. 2021-03-29 16:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
   A lot of the conspiracy theories mention the "GOF Research" at WIV and how they made these scary recombinant viruses - but that work was in DeepThroat's lab, not at WIV - so maybe that's what they're pushing against.
9. 2021-03-29 16:35 Edward C. Holmes open
   Yes, that's the one.

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