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Comment by Sallie Permar

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Virologist and coauthor of an ASM commentary on SARS-CoV-2 origins and lab-leak claims
While biosafety standards are critically important for research, the anxiety evoked by the lab leak hypothesis has resulted in some proposals for policies that, if adopted, would unnecessarily restrict research required for developing vaccines and antivirals in the US.
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Sallie Permar, coauthor of James Alwine et al., "The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence," Journal of Virology, August 1, 2024.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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