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Friday, May 22, 2020

Study: Coronavirus likely 'adapted' to humans at lab

Appearance should 'motivate' efforts to prevent future occurrences

It’s unlikely that COVID-19 crossed species lines at a Wuhan, China, wet market that China originally pinpointed as the source of the global pandemic, a study of the disease found.

The study’s authors, Canadian evolutionary biologist Shing Zhan and MIT molecular biologist Yujia Alina Chan, found that “phylogenetic tracking suggests” that the virus “had been imported into the market by humans.”

“Our observations suggest that by the time SARS-CoV-2” — the underlying virus that causes the coronavirus — “was first detected in late 2019, it was already pre-adapted to human transmission,” the authors wrote in the study.

“The sudden appearance of a highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 presents a major cause for concern that should motivate stronger international efforts to identify the source and prevent near future reemergence.”

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have we done this? FYI as it's sensational: Italians ignore WHO protocol, perform autopsy on Covid patient and discover it's not a virus at all

Link to a chatty and repetitive item which claims the Italians didn't follow the normal WHO protocol and opened up a Covid death, finding no evidence it was virally caused, but actually a bacteria which causes thromobosis - a large amount of blood clotting, and that it's a massive lie being perpetrated on the world. Also goes to why HCQ supposedly worked.

Parts of this make sense, remains to be seen if it stays up for further examination. The poster does throw in 5G. That exists in a more pronounced installation in urban zones with Democratic control, which is correlation not causation until proven differently.

How many autopsies have we actually done to confirm Covid? More like sign a cert and remove the body asap.


Contrast this story with another where medical authorities apparently claim they examined the virus and it shows a pattern of unanticipated affinity to binding to human cells which is unexplained in a animal virus that is normally found in bats.

Great, we now have competing theories. Nobody said this would be easy.