David Relman

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Stanford microbiologist and biosecurity expert; advisor to the U.S. federal government on biological weapons threats

Speaks on: COVID-19 Origins Disinformation FLF Epistack Health Public Health

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Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question
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Without China providing fundamental data, definitive conclusions remain impossible.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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There are two major hypotheses: ... natural spillover ... laboratory-associated mechanism. ... Neither hypothesis can be ruled in, nor ruled out. Both are plausible.
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