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peyton on Sept 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis

The lab is not 10 km away. It is next door to the market. From the WHO report [0]:

> The Wuhan CDC laboratory moved on 2nd December 2019 to a new location near the Huanan market.

[0]: page 119, https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/final-j...

LatteLazy on Sept 6, 2022 | [–]

The first cases of Covid were in November 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic#2019

Also, the new location is over 5km from the market.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Wuhan+Centres+for+Disease+Pr...

DiogenesKynikos on Sept 6, 2022 | | [–]

You're confusing the Wuhan CDC and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

vidro3 on Sept 6, 2022 | [–]

i thought cases were already cropping up prior to that move

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