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Alex Washburne

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Mathematical biologist who studies pathogen spillover and biosafety risks.

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

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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I have high confidence that this risky research caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question
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Infectious clones made via reverse genetics systems have featured prominently in my own work on SARS-CoV-2 origins for a reason. Behind my colleagues’ and my 2022 paper quantifying the magnitude of an anomaly in the SARS-CoV-2 genome consistent with ...
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