"“These spillovers take years,” Gray says. “It’s not like in the movies. They go through different steps to infect humans.” So far indications are that the chimeric virus has not evolved to transmit efficiently between people."
sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/t…
sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/t…
To find these steps for SARS2, I'd say that getting access to blood samples banked in Chinese cities prior to Dec 2019 is important.
Granting international experts access to the caves and regions in Yunnan, China where SARS2's closest relatives were found is also important.
Granting international experts access to the caves and regions in Yunnan, China where SARS2's closest relatives were found is also important.
It's already very surprising that the Chinese government has -still- not performed these basic checks to find the source of SARS2 / COVID-19 and determine when it first emerged in Wuhan.
cnn.com/2021/02/21/chi…
cnn.com/2021/02/21/chi…
As top expert Daniel Lucey told @SCMPNews
"My question is why would it not have been done? It was known to be necessary and it’s in China’s scientific interest, it’s in their public health interest and it’s in their national security interest"
scmp.com/news/china/sci…
"My question is why would it not have been done? It was known to be necessary and it’s in China’s scientific interest, it’s in their public health interest and it’s in their national security interest"
scmp.com/news/china/sci…
Just a few months earlier, Lucey had told @BBCNews
"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans"
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans"
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
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