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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Scientific research must always be curious (2019.02.13) | An exclusive interview with Shi Zhengli on her award winning submission “Research on Important Viruses Carried by Bats in China” which won the 2nd prize of the 2018 National Natural Science Award

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"Research on Important Viruses Carried by Bats in China”, The team. archive.is/jKq7B 2019.01.08 | Except for Li Yan, all authors of Ge et al. (2013)
"Major breakthroughs have been made in molecular epidemiology, new virus discovery and identification, and cross-species transmission mechanism, and many original results have been obtained." | Virosin's feature article on Shi Zhengli's research award

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9 Feb
WHO investigating frozen foods
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7 Feb
History of COVID-19 - Chapter 6 - Part 3: The key date of 2012 - when and how a virus related to RaTG13 could have passed to humans and in how long?

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"The clock values ​​calculated by Benvenuto et al. indicate that the evolution time between SARS-Cov2 and RaTG13 would be between 7.3 - 4.7 years. This gives a range between 2012 & 2015 covering exactly by its upper limit the incident at the Mojiang mine."
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"Therefore, RaTG13 or an extremely close virus may well be the ancestor of SARS-Cov2...In conclusion, obviously the sequencing in 2018 of the RaTG13 virus, from which SARS-Cov2 could certainly be descended, was not revealed until February 2020."
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3 Feb
Gain-of-Function Deliberative Process Written Public Comments (Oct. 19, 2014 – Jun. 8, 2016) #GoF

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Very interesting and informative - worth reading in full. A few choice quotes from this document to ponder to, in the thread below...
Elizabeth Hart: "There appears to be serious inadequate ethical oversight of this dangerous research,..It is most concerning that there is an arrogant attitude about this type of research.., perhaps exemplified most tellingly in the comments of Vincent Racaniello"
Steven Salzburg: "Gain-of-function research on viruses is both dangerous and irresponsible. The benefits are minimal if not zero. I strongly support a permanent ban on this research. Please shut it down and keep it shut down."
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17 Jan
"Scientists – like journalists – should follow evidence until it is disproved, even when it leads into uncomfortable terrain. Anything else is a betrayal of their creed." dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9… via @MailOnline
"Why didn’t [Shi Zhengli] mention the ‘furin cleavage site’ when publishing the genetic sequence for Sars-Cov-2, despite analysing its other novel features?"
"Why did she claim three miners died of a fungal infection in 2012 although it later emerged they died from a mysterious respiratory disease caught while clearing bat droppings in one of those caves?"
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16 Jan
"The starting point is the question of which animals were on that market in Wuhan, and where they came from."

Checking where the drainage & sewage systems ran, and where it came from, is a way better starting point IMO. 🧵
By now we all know this:

“Early investigations sampled frozen animal carcasses at the market, but none found evidence of SARS-CoV-2...However, environmental samples, taken mostly from drains and sewage, did test positive for the virus.”

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"Gao said he had gone to Wuhan to collect samples for COVID-19 researchers in early January, but no viruses were detected in the animal samples. Viruses were only found in environmental samples, including sewage."

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15 Jan
"In the future, people will probably remember a time before the pandemic - and a time after it. Against this background, the investigation from the WHO in China is probably no less than the question of the decade, perhaps even the question of the century." t-online.de/nachrichten/au…
"WHO experts have traveled to China to investigate the truth. Whether the world will ever know is not entirely up to them."

"The Chinese side was given the right to bless every single member of the ten-person team."
"In December, a team from the BBC traveled to Yunnan. The southern Chinese province is home to bats that carry a variety of coronaviruses. Chinese scientists, including researchers from WIV, have taken large amounts of samples from these bats in order to examine the viruses."
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