The Last–and Only–Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out
Pretty good article with some actual info on the lab.<p>&gt;From her first visit before it formally opened in 2018, Anderson was impressed with the institute’s maximum biocontainment lab. The concrete, bunker-style building has the highest biosafety designation, and requires air, water and waste to be filtered and sterilized before it leaves the facility.<p>I guess I would say this is less compelling to me than perhaps the scientists&#x2F;author makes it sound. If there was an accident - it doesn&#x27;t really matter if everything is sterilized before it leaves. The most plausible scenario was that a person in the lab breathed in material from the virus in which case there would be no way to stop it spreading without quarantining that person.<p>I sorta get the sense that the rules around this type of lab (not just Wuhan but everywhere) suffer from the same type of security theatre as grocery stores wiping down checkout registers. They can&#x27;t really do anything to prevent human to human transmission (unless they were secluded on an island or something, which they won&#x27;t do) so instead they go all out on ventilation and sterilization that don&#x27;t really effect how (most) viruses spread.