RaTG13. A thread.
RaTG13, the Bat-Cov most similar to Sars-Cov-2, was conjured out of the hat in late January 2020. The sample was allegedly collected in 2013, though submitted to NCBI only on 27-Jan-2020 by ... Zheng-Li Shi. |1
#Coronavirus #covid19 #sarscov2 #CoronavirusFacts
RaTG13, the Bat-Cov most similar to Sars-Cov-2, was conjured out of the hat in late January 2020. The sample was allegedly collected in 2013, though submitted to NCBI only on 27-Jan-2020 by ... Zheng-Li Shi. |1
#Coronavirus #covid19 #sarscov2 #CoronavirusFacts
On 03-Feb-2020 RaTG13 was presented in an Article published by Nature, received on 20-Jan-2020 , one week before RaTG13 was submitted to NCBI GenBank. |2
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
I guess this is the reason why RaTG13 was invented. No one would have bought the story of a bat origin when the sequence identity is ~80%. |3
Changes made to RaTG13. |5
How is it possible that they detected RaTG13 in 2020 but not in 2013? |6
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
"It is important to appreciate that RaTG13 itself is a conceptual rather than proven real virus, as a virus corresponding to RaTG13 has never been isolated and cloned. Instead, the sequence of RaTG13 was derived from short reads of amplified sequences isolated from pooled bat |7
specimens, and thereby may itself be an artefact rather than a real virus, made up of sequences from different but related coronaviruses." |8
#coronavirus #ratg13 #sarscov2 #covid19
scimex.org/newsfeed/covid…
#coronavirus #ratg13 #sarscov2 #covid19
scimex.org/newsfeed/covid…
"Anomalies in BatCoV/RaTG13 sequencing and provenance" |9
zenodo.cern.ch/record/3969272…
zenodo.cern.ch/record/3969272…
"Major Concerns on the Identification of Bat Coronavirus Strain RaTG13 and Quality of Related Nature Paper" |10
preprints.org/manuscript/202…
preprints.org/manuscript/202…
"The Abnormal Nature of the Fecal Swab Sample used for NGS Analysis of RaTG13 Genome Sequence Imposes a Question on the Correctness of the RaTG13 Sequence" |11
preprints.org/manuscript/202…
preprints.org/manuscript/202…
"RaTG13 – the undeniable evidence that the Wuhan coronavirus is man-made" |12
nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake…
nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake…
"All journal articles evaluating the origin or epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 that utilize the RaTG13 bat strain genomics are potentially flawed and should be retracted." |13
osf.io/wy89d/
osf.io/wy89d/
