Tag: Origins
Indian scientists explored the “unconventional evolution” of Sars-CoV-2 in January 2020
“One of such studies that was brought to the notice of Fauci was a research paper by some scientists from India.… ...More...
China: Government documents show first #coronavirus case was found November 17th 2019
The first case of someone in China suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, can be traced back to November 17th [2019], according to government data seen by the South China Morning Post. … ...More...
Fauci: I’m ‘not convinced’ Covid-19 #coronavirus developed naturally
Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is “not convinced” COVID-19 developed naturally, and called for an open investigation into the virus’ origins.… ...More...
A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived
“Based on this evidence, [bats] would have been hibernating at the time of the first human outbreak in the fall of 2019.… ...More...
UK #coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 may not have evolved spontaneously in the UK or within human populations
“Here we analyzed 454,443 SARS-CoV-2 spike genes/proteins and 14,427 whole-genome sequences.… ...More...
US Congress letter to Peter Daszak requesting information concerning Wuhan Institure of Virology
US Congress letter to Peter Daszak requesting information concerning Wuhan Institure of Virology
https://www.coronaheadsup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EcoHealth-Alliance-Letter-01.png… ...More...
“Gain of Function research hasn’t protected us from this outbreak, hasn’t provided us with any effective treatments or vaccines to save hundreds of thousands of lives lost to CoV2, and if there is even a 0.1% chance GOF research caused the whole thing, that chance is too high”
Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research
CoV2 is an obvious chimera (though not nesessarily a lab-made one), which is based on the ancestral bat strain RaTG13, in which the receptor binding motif (RBM) in its spike protein is replaced by the RBM from a pangolin strain, and in addition, a small but very special stretch of 4 amino acids is inserted, which creates a furin cleavage site that, as virologists have previously established, significantly expands the “repertoire” of the virus in terms of whose cells it can penetrate.… ...More...
Recombination and lineage-specific mutations linked to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus
In this work, we reconstruct the evolutionary events that have accompanied the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, with a special emphasis on the RBD and its adaptation for binding to its receptor, human ACE2 (hACE2).… ...More...
Joint Statement on the WHO-Convened COVID-19 Origins Study signed by 14 countries
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.
WHO report on coronavirus pandemic origins published
Arguments in favour [of a lab leak] : Although rare, laboratory accidents do happen, and different laboratories around the world are working with bat CoVs.… ...More...
WHO #coronavirus leaked report “virus most probably jumped from bats into farmed animals, before spreading to humans”
The long awaited World Health Organization report on the origins of Sars-Cov-2 has concluded that a leak from a laboratory, while possible, is “extremely unlikely”.… ...More...
Dr. Peter Daszak says coronavirus origins could be known ‘within the next few years’
The origins of the coronavirus will most likely be known within the next few years, according to a key member of a World Health Organization-led investigation into the pandemic’s origins.… ...More...
WHO Investigators scrap plans for interim report on probe of #coronavirus origins
WSJ: “The World Health Organization team investigating the origins of Covid-19 is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one international group of scientists for a new probe.… ...More...
Coronavirus was already spreading in France in late December 2019
RT-PCR was performed retrospectively on the stored respiratory sample [from December 2019] and confirmed the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection.… ...More...