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Susan R. Weiss

Professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine specializing in coronaviruses

Scientists can manipulate viral genomes, but nobody has the knowledge to make a virus that behaves like this one. I think it's almost, if not completely, impossible, that someone made the virus from scratch.

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Susan Weiss, quoted in William Audureau, “Covid-19: How a group of amateur investigators pushed the lab-leak theory,” Le Monde, February 18, 2025.

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

I think there are kind of two points to make here. The first is that there’s really no evidence of this virus ever being available in a lab. The second reason is that, I think it’s really highly unlikely to impossible for anyone to have genetically c...

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