re: Tulane Primate Center

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Please explain in detail, otherwise I take that you are full of shite. Chimps arent humans, and there are plenty of infected humans to collect data on in a safe environment.

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When animals die (or don't die), they can completely disassemble them (vivisection for the more literate crowd) and test every single part of the animal to try to figure out how the virus moves through the body, what organs it congregates in, what changes in the body it causes, etc.

It's hard to get permission from the family to do that with Pop Pop's rotting corpse.

It's a damned shame that those chimps are used when there are far less intelligent beings running around this place.

Also, the real answer is that the Tulane center is more a BSL 3 lab and a lot of what they do with things like Wuhan Virus never gets out of petri dishes and test tubes inside a fume hood. They test there because they have the facilities to test while keeping it contained and keeping the working scientists as safe as possible.