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22 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
SARS-CoV-2 Through the Lens of Computational Biology: "...efforts to clarify the origins of the virus would greatly benefit from new samples..particularly China. The cave..where RaTG13 was found is undoubtedly one the most interesting areas to search..."
gdr-bim.cnrs.fr/wp-content/upl…
"Re-analyzing the tissues collected from some of the Yunnan miners who fell sick in 2012/2013 would also be of utmost interest." Why hasn't these been done already?
Let's do this already!
The million-dollar question...

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22 Mar
Great article that highlights the absurdity of WHO playing down WIV lab researchers' illness:
"Nothing to see here — because the CCP told us so. No government, no public health official, no one affected by covid should accept such unserious explanations."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"For one thing, why is this information emerging only now, more than a year after the public outbreak?.. Does the WHO have the names of the lab researchers who fell ill? Were they interviewed? Has the WHO seen their medical records? Antibody test results?"
"These sick lab researchers may be the best lead yet into who or what might have been “Patient Zero.” There is no animal anywhere — no bat, no pangolin, no fanciful imported frozen food — that has been identified as a comparably likely source of the outbreak."
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17 Mar
Excellent article and yes the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.
undark.org/2021/03/17/lab…
David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, says a lab leak was never the subject of a “fair and dispassionate discussion of the facts as we know them.”
“We need a much better sense about where to place our resources and effort,” he adds. And if a lab release for SARS-CoV-2 looks plausible, Relman says, “then it absolutely deserves a whole lot more attention.”
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15 Mar
Raina MacIntyre, a professor of @Globalbiosec at UNSW, says the bat virus that infected the copper miners could have been deliberately mutated into COVID-19
9now.nine.com.au/60-minutes/und…
One thing is clear: China still owes many answers on the 2012 Covid-19 like mini-epidemic in Mojiang. However, WHO does not even want to ask the basic questions on the subject, and instead has tried to suppress investigations into it.
This scenario is far-fetched: Once you picked up a virus that is deadly to humans, you would like to test it in animal/cell models to gain insight into its "genetic evolution" and "cross-species transmission" mechanism.
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12 Mar
So just to be clear: the road to the mine, where SARS-CoV-2's closest relative was collected, has been blocked. Surveillance cameras are all over the place, and people have been arrested for getting close to the mine.

I'm sure it's totally normal.
Just to recap: Race to the Mojiang mine (Part 1)
(Part 2)
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11 Mar
"Given what we’ve been through over the past year, you’d imagine that governments are already working to tighten up international regulation of pathogens." This is a big issue that ain't getting the kind of attention it deserves.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"You might assume there’s an international organization filled with well-educated bureaucrats and scientists in Brussels or Geneva that is busy conducting rigorous spot checks of virus research labs to ensure they’re up to code."
"But it turns out the real story isn’t comforting at all...When it comes to studying, tampering with or producing new viruses, the international system is the Wild West."
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9 Mar
China Virome Project is asking itself: What happened to me?

A short thread.
EcoHealth Alliance was working with UC Davis [PREDICT], Wuhan Institute of Virology's ████████i for this project.

If only we had people that, you know, were asking basic questions like, whatever happened to this project?
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