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Comment by throwaway920102

I mean it could evolve to be airborne in the wild or in a research lab doing intentional gain of function research (a practice for which funding was temporarily halted by Obama) and hybridization much like has been done at BSL-4 facilities worldwide unchecked including by EcoHealth alliance with bat coronaviruses via US funding at the WIV prior to the Covid outbreak in Wuhan.

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-fai...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01209-w

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...

But it's probably fine and we probably shouldn't worry about the possibility of a global pandemic or of mutation of Ebola into a more transmissible form.

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