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Nicholas Wade: Origins of SARS-CoV-2 & COVID-19 -- Lab Leak or Wildlife Spillover? | #39
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English - September 30, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsScience Society & Culture science drugs psychedelics technology biotechnology innovation biology brain neuroscience startups Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Nick Jikomes talks to writer and science journalist Nicholas Wade about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nicholas describes how this story has evolved since the start of the pandemic, and contrasts the the two main hypotheses for the origins of COVID: wildlife spillover vs. lab leak. He describes how viruses in the past (e.g. SARS1) emerged, peculiarities of the SARS2 genome, Peter Daszak & EcoHealth Alliance, Wuhan Institute of Virology, and various conflicts of interest that people have had. He describes how we don't have proof whether a wildlife spillover or a lab leak explains the origins of COVID-19, what definitive evidence would look like, and whether we are likely to resolve this mystery.
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