Category: Origins
US Senate committee reports on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic
“Substantial evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a research-related incident associated with a laboratory in Wuhan, China.”… ...More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 may have originated as an infectious clone assembled in vitro
A new preprint out today finds that SARS-COV-2 has “a synthetic fingerprint unlikely to have evolved from its close relatives.”… ...More...
Professor Jeffrey Sachs is pretty convinced COVID-19 came out of US lab biotechnology
The chair of the Lancet Covid Commission, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, whose recent report into the global mismanagement of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic we covered in this post, has used an online interview to explain his views on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.… ...More...
Research: “Omicron variant is highly likely a product of artificial genetic modification”
An extraordinary claim in a research paper just released: that the Omicron variant could be a product of artificial genetic modification.… ...More...
Italy: SARS-CoV-2 found in patient samples from September 2019
“We conclude that a SARS-CoV-2 progenitor capable of producing a measles-like syndrome may have emerged in late June – late July 2019”.… ...More...
America finally starts asking the right questions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2
There were extraordinary scenes at a senate committee hearing last week as Senator Rand Paul forensically cross-examined scientists about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and the gain-of-function experiments that may have caused it.… ...More...
Preprint: Monkeypox has far more mutations than expected
“Researchers found the current Monkeypox strain diverges from the original strain by 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and several mutations made the virus more transmissible.”… ...More...
UK: 18 more children diagnosed with sudden onset hepatitis, total now 240
“Active investigations have identified a further 18 confirmed cases since the last update on 27 May, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 240, as of 7 June.”… ...More...
Preprint: Monkeypox has epidemic potential
“Monkeypox has epidemic potential”
“We conclude that circulation of smallpox, followed by worldwide smallpox vaccination, have previously protected human populations from monkeypox epidemics.… ...More...
Research: Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 before Wuhan outbreak in 2019
In the USA, SARS-CoV-2 reactive antibodies were detected in over 100 blood samples collected in several different states in early December 2019.… ...More...