Tag: Origins
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...
WHO mission to Wuhan finds possible signs of wider original coronavirus outbreak in 2019
Investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the outbreak was much wider in Wuhan in December 2019 than previously thought, and are urgently seeking access to hundreds of thousands of blood samples from the city that China has not so far let them examine.… ...More...
Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Italy in September 2019
Table 1 reports anti-SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibody detection according to the time of sample collection in Italy.… ...More...