Science: Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats

You know nothing, they took an existing coronavirus and added proteins to it, this is why they knew it was manmade - scientist agreed there is no possibility the protein was attached to the virus unless it was placed there.
What I said is an enormous short hand of what they did - VERY widely known and respected virologist have agreed the protein structure with the specific amino acids is not indicative of any natural way of occurrence.
It was man made
Here's an informative link to its origins -


It's extremely well written, may I add.
 
That's what you get for using Wikipedia as a scientific source.

... and the Mayo Clinic is full of morons ... right? ...

Go to school for 8 years, maybe it'll help alleviate your ignorance. Maybe.

Still waiting on the proof you claim you have ... still waiting for you to provide a "scientific citation" ... maybe you'll be as smart as me when you finish Middle School ...

I'm calling you a liar and a fraud ... and you present no rebuttal ... pathetic ... you said you've proven it impossible to occur in a wet market ... let's see that proof ... a scientific citation is fine ...
 
... and the Mayo Clinic is full of morons ... right? ...

The same kinds of morons who told us getting vaxxed would prevent Covid, yes.

Still waiting on the proof you claim you have ... still waiting for you to provide a "scientific citation" ... maybe you'll be as smart as me when you finish Middle School ...

Denied.

Go to medical school like I did, maybe you'll learn something.

I'm calling you a liar and a fraud ...

Just don't call me for dinner. :p

and you present no rebuttal ... pathetic ... you said you've proven it impossible to occur in a wet market ... let's see that proof ... a scientific citation is fine ...

A simple Google search would alleviate at least a tiny portion of your ignorance.

You know how to use Google, don't you?

You're on your own. I'm busy with JC virus datasets just now.
 
lol

You want pics? I give you pics. :p

First, let me state unequivocally that Matlab is a gigantic PITA. I vastly prefer R or even Python with numpy and matplotlib. However my colleagues are leftards so they demand the inferior toolset. Naturally.

Okay - first - the original SARS virus came out of Vietnam, not China. It was discovered by Dr Carlo Urbani in the French Hospital in Hanoi. Dr Urbani died from contracting the disease from one of his patients. Here is a pretty thorough summary of the history.


The similarity with Covid is that the virus causes cell fusion. The dissimilarity is that unlike Covid, the original SARS virus cross-binds with other cell surface receptors besides ACE-2, like the glycoprotein C-type lectin CD209L.


It's interesting to read the early literature on SARS from the early 2000's because they didn't have nearly the diagnostic power we have today. They did a great job very quickly, given the tools at their disposal. For instance -


Now, with respect to Covid, which is called SARS-2 because it results in the same set of symptoms (although with significant differences in terms of the age groups affected and the clearance times), the wet market theory places the first infection about 4 days prior to the first reported wet market case, which would make it around Dec 5 2019.


The problem with that theory is, there are multiple cases reported as far back as early October. There are definitively multiple cases in mid-November. There is a definitive case of a 55 year old individual on Nov 17, a hundred miles away from the wet market -


- and at least one definitive case in late October.


These cases prove that the Covid virus was circulating well before the wet market outbreak.

"...the market cluster is unlikely to have marked the beginning of the pandemic because the earliest documented COVID-19 cases had no connection to the market". (ibid)

Scientists in Australia used the "most recent common ancestor" method to regress the transmission of the virus.

"Based on this work, the researchers estimate that the median number of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 in China was less than one until November 4, 2019. Thirteen days later, it was four individuals, and just nine on December 1, 2019."

"The index case can conceivably predate the common ancestor — the actual first case of this outbreak may have occurred days, weeks or even many months before the estimated common ancestor. Determining the length of that ‘phylogenetic fuse’ was at the heart of our investigation".

Here is a lengthy but thorough article describing Dr. Worobey's first tracing efforts while he was at the University of Arizona:


More generally - it is likely that sarbecovirus closely related to SARS-2 has been around southern China and southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laid) for thousands of years. The virus will go extinct whenever it lacks a host, then reappear through ongoing genetic recombination. We can actually estimate the frequency of such events.


Nevertheless, for this particular outbreak, the statistics say the most likely "patient one" was infected at or around October 4 2019, with a 95% likelihood.


The wet market theory has therefore been completely debunked. On the basis of the well documented Nov 17 case alone, the wet market theory is impossible.

In fact, on the same day as the putative wet market outbreak in early December, the Covid virus was already circulating in France and Italy.



The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to control the flow of information associated with the Covid virus, even reaching into the WHO and the US medical community.

"Another study published by scientists from University College London had contended that the virus likely first emerged in October 2019 and had begun rapidly spreading around the world by December that year. Earlier this week, researcher Jesse Bloom published a preprint noting that he had recovered genomic sequencing data of the virus from early cases, which had been removed from the U.S. government’s database. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed that the samples had been deleted at the request of Chinese investigators, who said they would be updated and submitted to another archive. This sparked further speculation that China was trying to cover up the origins of the pandemic".


This is one of the reasons Anthony Fauci should be in jail. Since when do scientific samples related to a US epidemic get destroyed "at the request of the Chinese government"?

China never did update the results. There was no new Chinese archive. The data had to be scraped from raw Chinese hospital sources by Harvard Medical School. The citations are in the links.
 
lol

You want pics? I give you pics. :p

First, let me state unequivocally that Matlab is a gigantic PITA. I vastly prefer R or even Python with numpy and matplotlib. However my colleagues are leftards so they demand the inferior toolset. Naturally.

Okay - first - the original SARS virus came out of Vietnam, not China. It was discovered by Dr Carlo Urbani in the French Hospital in Hanoi. Dr Urbani died from contracting the disease from one of his patients. Here is a pretty thorough summary of the history.


The similarity with Covid is that the virus causes cell fusion. The dissimilarity is that unlike Covid, the original SARS virus cross-binds with other cell surface receptors besides ACE-2, like the glycoprotein C-type lectin CD209L.


It's interesting to read the early literature on SARS from the early 2000's because they didn't have nearly the diagnostic power we have today. They did a great job very quickly, given the tools at their disposal. For instance -


Now, with respect to Covid, which is called SARS-2 because it results in the same set of symptoms (although with significant differences in terms of the age groups affected and the clearance times), the wet market theory places the first infection about 4 days prior to the first reported wet market case, which would make it around Dec 5 2019.


The problem with that theory is, there are multiple cases reported as far back as early October. There are definitively multiple cases in mid-November. There is a definitive case of a 55 year old individual on Nov 17, a hundred miles away from the wet market -


- and at least one definitive case in late October.


These cases prove that the Covid virus was circulating well before the wet market outbreak.

"...the market cluster is unlikely to have marked the beginning of the pandemic because the earliest documented COVID-19 cases had no connection to the market". (ibid)

Scientists in Australia used the "most recent common ancestor" method to regress the transmission of the virus.

"Based on this work, the researchers estimate that the median number of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 in China was less than one until November 4, 2019. Thirteen days later, it was four individuals, and just nine on December 1, 2019."

"The index case can conceivably predate the common ancestor — the actual first case of this outbreak may have occurred days, weeks or even many months before the estimated common ancestor. Determining the length of that ‘phylogenetic fuse’ was at the heart of our investigation".

Here is a lengthy but thorough article describing Dr. Worobey's first tracing efforts while he was at the University of Arizona:


More generally - it is likely that sarbecovirus closely related to SARS-2 has been around southern China and southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laid) for thousands of years. The virus will go extinct whenever it lacks a host, then reappear through ongoing genetic recombination. We can actually estimate the frequency of such events.


Nevertheless, for this particular outbreak, the statistics say the most likely "patient one" was infected at or around October 4 2019, with a 95% likelihood.


The wet market theory has therefore been completely debunked. On the basis of the well documented Nov 17 case alone, the wet market theory is impossible.

In fact, on the same day as the putative wet market outbreak in early December, the Covid virus was already circulating in France and Italy.



The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to control the flow of information associated with the Covid virus, even reaching into the WHO and the US medical community.

"Another study published by scientists from University College London had contended that the virus likely first emerged in October 2019 and had begun rapidly spreading around the world by December that year. Earlier this week, researcher Jesse Bloom published a preprint noting that he had recovered genomic sequencing data of the virus from early cases, which had been removed from the U.S. government’s database. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirmed that the samples had been deleted at the request of Chinese investigators, who said they would be updated and submitted to another archive. This sparked further speculation that China was trying to cover up the origins of the pandemic".


This is one of the reasons Anthony Fauci should be in jail. Since when do scientific samples related to a US epidemic get destroyed "at the request of the Chinese government"?

China never did update the results. There was no new Chinese archive. The data had to be scraped from raw Chinese hospital sources by Harvard Medical School. The citations are in the links.
I must be immune, I never contracted any of the viruses.
 
Oh yeah, pictures...

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Sexy, ain't they? :p
 
again, please do not post weird opinions as if they are backed up by factual data
“Mow your own lawn” isn’t an opinion, imbecile.
 
Here we are -- again. What I remember so well is this: "The F.B.I., and the C.I.A. favor an escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, although with only low certainty. The Department of Energy leans with low confidence to the virus escaping from a different lab in Wuhan. Other agencies lean toward a natural origin."

Yes, Here we are -- again.

Headline: Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats​

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.

Here we are -- again. Yes, science never sleeps. A few facts as a primer:

In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans. The result was the SARS pandemic, which spread to 33 countries and claimed 774 lives. A few months into it, scientists discovered the coronavirus in mammals known as palm civets sold in a market at the center of the outbreak.
In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of Covid 17 years later. The researchers analyzed the genomes of the two coronaviruses that caused the pandemics, along with 248 related coronaviruses in bats and other mammals.

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

As I've said before "Follow the facts"

The study (a study published on Wednesday), lands at a fraught political moment. Last month the White House created a web page called “Lab Leak: The True Origin of Covid 19,” asserting that the pandemic had been caused not by a market spillover but by an accident in a lab in Wuhan, China.​

We all got the same news as far as government's were concerned. Then there was what scientists who analyzed the data were saying:
The Chinese government responded with a flat denial that Covid had been caused by a Wuhan lab leak and raised the possibility that the virus had come instead from a biodefense lab in the United States.
“A thorough and in-depth investigation into the origins of the virus should be conducted in the U.S.,” the statement read.
Sergei Pond, a virologist at Temple University, said that he did not consider the origin of Covid settled. But he worried that the incendiary language from the two governments would make it difficult for scientists to investigate — and debate — the origin of Covid.
“If it wasn’t tragic, you’d have to laugh, it’s so farcical,” Dr. Pond said.

Then we go from "science" to "politics" -- How a Bannon-linked conspiracy theory about coronavirus origins landed on Murdoch-owned media, including Fox News

Well al know FOX News knowingly lied about the 2020 election.

Then...

  • May 23, 2003
HONG KONG, May 23 — A virus virtually identical to the one believed to cause SARS in humans has been found in a catlike tree-dwelling animal whose meat is a delicacy in southern China and in two other species, scientists here and at the World Health Organization said today.

Discovery of the virus in animals makes it much more unlikely that SARS can be eradicated, because of the difficulty of eradicating the animals that harbor the virus. But control of those species could reduce the risk of it from seeding cases into the human population in the future.
Great deflection.

Bravo. :clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2:
 
Here we are -- again. What I remember so well is this: "The F.B.I., and the C.I.A. favor an escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, although with only low certainty. The Department of Energy leans with low confidence to the virus escaping from a different lab in Wuhan. Other agencies lean toward a natural origin."

Yes, Here we are -- again.

Headline: Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats​

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.

Here we are -- again. Yes, science never sleeps. A few facts as a primer:

In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans. The result was the SARS pandemic, which spread to 33 countries and claimed 774 lives. A few months into it, scientists discovered the coronavirus in mammals known as palm civets sold in a market at the center of the outbreak.
In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of Covid 17 years later. The researchers analyzed the genomes of the two coronaviruses that caused the pandemics, along with 248 related coronaviruses in bats and other mammals.

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

As I've said before "Follow the facts"

The study (a study published on Wednesday), lands at a fraught political moment. Last month the White House created a web page called “Lab Leak: The True Origin of Covid 19,” asserting that the pandemic had been caused not by a market spillover but by an accident in a lab in Wuhan, China.​

We all got the same news as far as government's were concerned. Then there was what scientists who analyzed the data were saying:
The Chinese government responded with a flat denial that Covid had been caused by a Wuhan lab leak and raised the possibility that the virus had come instead from a biodefense lab in the United States.
“A thorough and in-depth investigation into the origins of the virus should be conducted in the U.S.,” the statement read.
Sergei Pond, a virologist at Temple University, said that he did not consider the origin of Covid settled. But he worried that the incendiary language from the two governments would make it difficult for scientists to investigate — and debate — the origin of Covid.
“If it wasn’t tragic, you’d have to laugh, it’s so farcical,” Dr. Pond said.

Then we go from "science" to "politics" -- How a Bannon-linked conspiracy theory about coronavirus origins landed on Murdoch-owned media, including Fox News

Well al know FOX News knowingly lied about the 2020 election.

Then...

  • May 23, 2003
HONG KONG, May 23 — A virus virtually identical to the one believed to cause SARS in humans has been found in a catlike tree-dwelling animal whose meat is a delicacy in southern China and in two other species, scientists here and at the World Health Organization said today.

Discovery of the virus in animals makes it much more unlikely that SARS can be eradicated, because of the difficulty of eradicating the animals that harbor the virus. But control of those species could reduce the risk of it from seeding cases into the human population in the future.
It's Science: Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats

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