When agents from the FBI and CIA flew to New Orleans, Louisiana, last month to talk to virologist Robert Garry about the origins of COVID-19, he was relieved by the depth of their scientific background. βThese folks were really knowledgeable, had PhDs in molecular biology, they had read all of the papers in detail,β he says.
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Nature 597, 159-160 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02366-0
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