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The WHO spoke on this topic in the Q&A section of their May 4th press briefing. First, Maria van Kerkhove said that it is important to identify the true orgin of the epidemic and the intermediate hosts that may be involved so that we can prevent future outbreaks, citing MERS and dromedary camels...

There are various issues surrounding the World Health Organization (WHO) and Taiwan, owing to the fact that Taiwan is not a United Nations (UN) member, and is not officially recognized by the WHO, which is a UN agency. The WHO was prepared to address this issue in its May 4th press briefing in...

This seems confused about the numbers, I believe the US total was 65000 whily NY was 20000 at the time (US 72275, NY 25205 via https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ today), I can't imagine Gov. Cuomo saying otherwise. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is...

Newsweek writes "scientists have for the past five years been engaged" and the evidence we have is "five years ago", not "for the past five years", but that's close. This covers the two scientists from WIV being consulting authors on the Chapel Hill study. Your phrasing is "the WIV conducted"...

I did. examined on HeLa cells (Wuhan Institute of Virology) that expressed ACE2 orthologs. The WIV provided some of the cells that were used (along with other types from other sources) in North Carolina, and had two contributing authors (9th and 14th). I still say that's not "conducting...

Because RaTG13 is mentioned in that paper; if it was sufficiently similar, they'd have mentioned it. What ferrets are you talking about? Yes. many generations of virus so that the virus can mutate and adapt. Why else would it need to be prolonged? I am not conflating these two, I am accepting...

The random survey found 1 orange infected. It seems I really need to make clearer what the graphic means. Thanky you for your feedback.

I've wanted to make a graphic for this fallacy for a while, and your post pushed me to actually do it. I'd appreciate any feedback on which size works best on your device, and what I should change to make the message more clear. I felt I ought to maybe add percentages but I'm not sure if they...

Yes, but it doesn't have a source; I'm assuming they are misrepresenting the Chapel Hill research. It kinda matters which continent they did the actual work on, don't you think? This research was not led by the WIV. If you can find proof of work done in Wuhan, please show me. The letter lists 3...

I haven't heard of this, do you have a source? I know the virus is getting cloned. The argument is that it doesn't look like it could be designed to do what it does the way that it does (see the nature letter linked in my previous post). A source link would be nice here as well. Was that the...

It wasn't done in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it was done at Chapel Hill in the USA. That disproves the core of your point, and that's as far as the evidence goes. The rest is speculation. (The study also shows that there is an aim to that research and a reason why the research on GOF is...

That summary is false. Your article says explicitly: There is no published record of animal-passage work on coronaviruses in the Wuhan Institute.Researchers publish. If there is no publication, they probably didn't do it. The 2015 GOF research was actually conducted at the University of North...

This is true for stuff that accumulates, but non-ionizing EMF doesn't seem to do that. Drink 50°C tea twenty times, nothing happens, drink 95°C tea once and scald your mouth. Sometimes it doesn't accumulate. And non-ionizing EMF damage that we are certain about is like heat! Your argument makes...

-- you might not develop a lasting immune response -- you will miss advances in treatment -- pneumonia may leave lasting lung damage (reported by a diving physician from Innsbruck in healthy, fit adults) -- we haven't identified all of the risk factors yet -- risk of stroke, lung embolism, ...

It's easy to use a telephoto lens to fake photos of people being close together: Taken from https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-paa-hinanden-disse-billeder-er-taget-samtidig-men-viser-to where you can find more examples.

If you have a stuffy nose, the smells don't reach the smell sensor cells because they're gunked up. If you have a cold/flu, the sensor cells are inflamed and don't work (says the businessinsider article). I don't think anyone really knows why this happens with Covid-19, but it's not because of...

This is not the symptom. This is being unable to smell anything, even a dirty diaper, because of a nerve disconnect caused by the virus. The businessinsider article says it's caused by an inflammation in the nose. Thank you for looking that up!

https://xkcd.com/2300/ If enough people uphill decide to try the rolling strategy, they can make the decision for you.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v2 The Santa Clara study pre-print has been revised, and they added some extra data. The study still struggles severely with self-selection bias. They also added a bunch of validation data for their test kits that doesn't really answer...

I don't think it's helpful. It's not helpful to erode trust in the CDC on acocunt of an article that probably had no input from the CDC, so it's a bit onesided; and it's not helpful because these 61000 people died of *something* in the year 2017/18, and the comings and goings of the various...