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:I suggest beginning a page on [[CCP virus in the United States]], or some such title and add the speculative information there. For now, it coud go in [[CCP_global_pandemic#United_States]] as the information is more fully developed and rounded off into its own subheading. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 13:51, 12 April 2020 (EDT)

:I suggest beginning a page on [[CCP virus in the United States]], or some such title and add the speculative information there. For now, it coud go in [[CCP_global_pandemic#United_States]] as the information is more fully developed and rounded off into its own subheading. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 13:51, 12 April 2020 (EDT)

== Li Zhengli ==

== Shi Zhengli ==

This article has nothing about [[Shi Zhengli]] yet, although evidence is mounting that the virus might have escape from her lab. Shi has authored so many papers on bat coronavirus that ''Scientific American'' has dubbed her "bat woman." That there was a lab in Wuhan specializing in this type of virus at the time of the outbreak might not be a coincidence. At least those are the lines along which Shi herself is thinking: "“I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir for many viruses. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “could they have come from our lab?”"[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/] Shi runs a civilian lab that publishes the results of its research, so I find it unlikely that this virus is some kind of genetically engineered bioweapon. You can get the conspiracy theory version of what happened from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_rfTdayLs&t=1s the ''Epoch Times''].  I found [https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html this debunking] to be more convincing. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 22:37, 13 April 2020 (EDT)

This article has nothing about [[Shi Zhengli]] yet, although evidence is mounting that the virus might have escape from her lab. Shi has authored so many papers on bat coronavirus that ''Scientific American'' has dubbed her "bat woman." That there was a lab in Wuhan specializing in this type of virus at the time of the outbreak might not be a coincidence. At least those are the lines along which Shi herself is thinking: "“I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir for many viruses. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “could they have come from our lab?”"[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/] Shi runs a civilian lab that publishes the results of its research, so I find it unlikely that this virus is some kind of genetically engineered bioweapon. You can get the conspiracy theory version of what happened from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_rfTdayLs&t=1s the ''Epoch Times''].  I found [https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html this debunking] to be more convincing. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 22:37, 13 April 2020 (EDT)