Rasmus Nielsen on COVID-19 originated from a lab-related …

Rasmus Nielsen

Professor of integrative biology and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

A quick read of the report suggests that it does not contain much new solid information that could help us understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

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Rasmus Nielsen, PhD, response on SciLine's “Origins of COVID-19,” March 30, 2021.

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

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