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On Tuesday, it was clear that the “fact sheet” behind recent claims that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab could not be trusted, and that, truthfully, we still don’t know the precise origin of the virus. We know it has ancestors among a pool of coronavirus that circulates in horseshoe bats and may have reached humans by way of pangolins as an intermediary host. But where the virus achieved the structure we know as SARS-CoV-2, including the ability to spread infection easily from human to human, remains unknown.
But while the scientists can’t eliminate the possibility that the first case of SARS-CoV-2 escaped a facility in the body of a researcher, they are definitive in saying that the features of the virus all but rule out the possibility that the virus was developed “in culture.” The changes between the virus and the wild viruses “argues against culture-based scenarios.” Instead, the features of the virus “suggest the involvement of an immune system.” SARS-CoV-2 evolved within living animals, almost certainly in the wild.
So… once again, could the virus that causes SARS-CoV-2 have been introduced to the population of Wuhan by laboratory error at the virology institute in that city? Yes, though there remains no evidence that this is the case. Could the virus have been in some sense built at that lab by combining features of bat and pangolin viruses in some kind of “gain-of-function” research? No. Almost certainly not.
they are definitive in saying that the features of the virus all but rule out the possibility that the virus was developed “in culture.” The changes between the virus and the wild viruses “argues against culture-based scenarios.” Instead, the features of the virus “suggest the involvement of an immune system.”
From everything i've heard or read so far, this statement is the most telling. A purposely developed, weaponized virus developed in culture, has a very definitive signature, that can be seen and tested. The features of the virus that have been the most infectious, have had immune system involvement. This suggests the virus learned from a immune system how to escape and replicate to become so infectious, and could very well have been an animal immune system first, before jumping to humans. Which would indicate wild virus, not laboratory cultured virus. And as suggested could have been introduced by human error in Wuhan by a lab technician, though this has yet to be confirmed. Biden made the correct decision to have intelligence investigate.
But while the scientists can’t eliminate the possibility that the first case of SARS-CoV-2 escaped a facility in the body of a researcher, they are definitive in saying that the features of the virus all but rule out the possibility that the virus was developed “in culture.” The changes between the virus and the wild viruses “argues against culture-based scenarios.” Instead, the features of the virus “suggest the involvement of an immune system.” SARS-CoV-2 evolved within living animals, almost certainly in the wild.
So… once again, could the virus that causes SARS-CoV-2 have been introduced to the population of Wuhan by laboratory error at the virology institute in that city? Yes, though there remains no evidence that this is the case. Could the virus have been in some sense built at that lab by combining features of bat and pangolin viruses in some kind of “gain-of-function” research? No. Almost certainly not.
We still can't be sure where COVID-19 first infected humans, but we can be sure about some things
On Tuesday, it was clear that the “fact sheet” behind recent claims that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab could not be trusted, and that, truthfully, we still don’t know the precise origin of the virus. We know it has ancestors among a pool of...
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they are definitive in saying that the features of the virus all but rule out the possibility that the virus was developed “in culture.” The changes between the virus and the wild viruses “argues against culture-based scenarios.” Instead, the features of the virus “suggest the involvement of an immune system.”
From everything i've heard or read so far, this statement is the most telling. A purposely developed, weaponized virus developed in culture, has a very definitive signature, that can be seen and tested. The features of the virus that have been the most infectious, have had immune system involvement. This suggests the virus learned from a immune system how to escape and replicate to become so infectious, and could very well have been an animal immune system first, before jumping to humans. Which would indicate wild virus, not laboratory cultured virus. And as suggested could have been introduced by human error in Wuhan by a lab technician, though this has yet to be confirmed. Biden made the correct decision to have intelligence investigate.