
Three: Andy Weber on pandemics and nuclear wars
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
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Is This a Natural Spread?
The odds that this was a laboratory acquired infection that spread, perhaps unwittingly, into the comn in mohan is about a 50% possibility. We as as evidence for a natural spread hasn't been produced. So while it seemed an unlikely hypothesis a year ago, overtime, more and more evidence of leaning in that direction has come out. But there's a huge risk in doing this type of gain of function research. And we know that the wohan institute ofor arology was doing exactly this type of research,. some of it which was splended by the nationalists of health of the united states on the corono viruses.
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