1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted. @mylcheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings: apnews.com/article/china-…
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2/It was the start of a long quest, as we unspooled competing factions & personalities within different Chinese government agencies and their interactions with foreign experts & institutions. On the way, we learned about why the search for COVID-19's origins went horribly awry