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Levin does make some disturbing mistakes in his introduction. I understand that he is an economist, but this is sloppy because this is easy to check. WIV1 and WIV16 were not found in the old Mojiang copper mine, but a long way away.

"The most closely related bat viral strains (WIV1 and WIV16) exhibit similarity of about 96% to the SARS-CoV genome; those strains were cultured from samples collected at an abandoned mine in Yunnan province, about 1500km from Guangzhou."

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