I expect you’re right, but can you elaborate? For the sake of discussion, suppose it was accidentally released but deliberately created. Couldn’t the ‘designers’ of such a virus have knowledge about its capacities that might elude outside researchers?
To understand the long-term impacts of a disease or drug you have to study what it does in humans. That’s why a lot of drugs that were promising to the developer of the drug don’t live up to their promises in clinical trials.
There’s information that you gain in the design of a drug that’s useful to know which questions to ask when you study the drug in humans, but clinical studies in humans are the most important source of information.
Given the pressures that exist in China to fudge numbers, any internal government statistics that the Chinese do have are likely not very trustworthy. Very smart people in the Chinese party know that.
I expect you’re right, but can you elaborate? For the sake of discussion, suppose it was accidentally released but deliberately created. Couldn’t the ‘designers’ of such a virus have knowledge about its capacities that might elude outside researchers?
To understand the long-term impacts of a disease or drug you have to study what it does in humans. That’s why a lot of drugs that were promising to the developer of the drug don’t live up to their promises in clinical trials.
There’s information that you gain in the design of a drug that’s useful to know which questions to ask when you study the drug in humans, but clinical studies in humans are the most important source of information.
Given the pressures that exist in China to fudge numbers, any internal government statistics that the Chinese do have are likely not very trustworthy. Very smart people in the Chinese party know that.