The TWiV team explains what the Biden report on SARS-CoV-2 origins did not: evidence that the virus came from Nature, not a lab; and reveals new coronaviruses in rodents that inhabit populated areas in southern China.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

Biden preliminary report on virus origins (NY Times)
Window on SARS-CoV-2 origins closing (Nature)
WHO Committee members on TWiV 760
Origins of SARS-CoV-2 review (Cell)
Comirnaty? Really Pfizer? (FDA)
Why the weird name for Pfizer vaccine (Quartz)
US vaccine names (CDC)
More coronaviruses from rodents in China (J Viral)
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