Ashish K. Jha
@ashishkjha
Physician, scientist, biosecurity expert. Co-founder, @BioRadarUSA. Because an ounce of data is worth a thousand pounds of opinion.
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Many of you have been tracking the Irkutsk lab situation over the last few days.
I've been gathering facts and trying to understand what is happening before weighing in.
Now that I have, I have to say — I'm concerned
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Extraordinarily sad.
The tragedy here is that these deaths are entirely preventable with a safe, cheap intervention -- the MMR vaccine
No European country splits the MMR vaccine as 3 separate shots.
The closest historical exceptions were Russia and Tajikistan who used partial combinations
They both now have moved to full MMR
My view on COVID origins isn't new — I've held it since my time at the White House
Here's the truth: no one in America knows for sure. Anyone telling you they do is selling you something
Based on strong circumstantial evidence I've seen, I think lab leak is much more likely. Not engineered. Not deliberate. Accidental
Reasonable people can look at the same evidence and disagree
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