A large team of virologists from several insts in China have discovered #SARSCoV2 - like viruses in bats in Yunnan Province. This pre-print contains much of interest.
- 411 bat samples were collected between May 2019 & Nov 2020.
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cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092…
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- genome analysis shows 4 novel #SARSCoV2 -related viruses
- 3 of them carry a genetically distinct spike gene that could weakly bind to the human ACE2 receptors in vitro
- and 3 other viruses were found, similar to the one that caused #SARS in 2003

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- the ecological niche for these bats stretches from South Laos & Vietnam & Myanmar to southern China
- genetic sequence identity for #SARSCoV2 and original #SARS of new-found viruses ranges from 94 to 97.7%
- some genomic clustering with pangolin virus seen
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- one of these newly found bat coronaviruses - RpYN06 - is 94.5% genetically identical to the #SARSCoV2 genome as a whole, & "in some individual gene regions was the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 identified to date."
- near-identical viruses found in many bat species.

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6 Jun
Trump supporters have successfully turned our USA #COVID19 world upside down.
After a year of calling #SARSCoV2 the "China Virus" they "leaked" unconfirmed info on the Wuhan Inst Virology that now has the media self-flagellating about "discounting the lab leak theory."
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2/
Then, they wove a false narrative about NIH funding gain-of-function experiments inside WIV that led to creation of a #COVID super-bug, which "leaked" spawning our pandemic.
And then it's "The Fauci Virus" -- all Tony Fauci's alleged idea, and financing.
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3/
Now #TonyFauci has gone from being America's #COVID19 hero to the target of hatred --even Donald #Trump Jr tweeted a slightly veiled call for killing Fauci.
As skeptical as you may be about the origins of the virus, consider who stands to gain from the new narrative. And lose.
Read 5 tweets
28 May
Choice excerpts from @POTUS @JoeBiden speech yesterday in Cleveland:
"From a year of darkness, we're now emerging into the light. And I said from the very beginning: There's no chance -- no chance for this economy to come back unless we beat the #pandemic."
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Biden/2
"And after administering 271 million doses of #vaccine in the first 120 days...cases are down now from January 83%. The number of deaths has fallen by 85%.
Schools are reopening. Businesses are reopening. Restaurants are reopening.
We've turned the tide..."
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Biden/3
"...on the once-in-a-century #pandemic...(and) on a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Families are beginning to be able to breathe just a little bit easier.
We still have work to do, but our future today is as bright & wide open as it ever has been."
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Read 4 tweets
22 May
Two recently discovered #coronaviruses may have jumped from cats/dogs and pigs to people. These are not, as headlines claim, "new viruses" -- rather, they were found in samples taken from past pneumonia outbreaks. Good overview: the-scientist.com/news-opinion/t…
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2/ In 2017-18 in Sarawak, Malaysia a strange pneumonia epidemic hit, hospitalizing children.
Recent analysis of stored 2017 nasal swabs led to discovery of a #coronavirus that is a chimera, genetically from cats & dogs. It infected some children.
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar… MORE
3/ In 2014 in a school in Haiti children developed high fevers. Recent analysis of samples from those kids revealed a previously unknown pig #coronavirus .
The spike protein of the virus appears to have adapted to human cells.
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
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Read 4 tweets
20 May
Why is the @JoeBiden administration doing such a lousy job with convincing the hesitant to get #COVID19 #vaccines?
Here's some messages I'd like to see.
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washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Message 1: Worried you might give your kids or grandkids #COVID19 ?
Great news: The virus spreads via breathing, shared air. You can wear masks to cut that. AND, turns out the vaccines fill your nose & throat w/virus-killing antibodies, so you don't spread or harbor virus.
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Message 2: All of those scary mutant forms -- variants -- of #COVID19 ? Looks like all of the vaccines used in the USA knock them out. Sometimes the immune response against a particular variant is weaker, but it still works.
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Read 12 tweets
14 May
A 40-page analysis of 100s of 1000s of false social media postings aimed at discouraging #COVID19 #vaccine uptake finds that 65% of it traces to just 12 people -- and here's the names.
(Do with them what you will, says Centr for Countering Digital Hate)
…b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_b7c…
And here are the Disinfo Dozen.
#1 - Joseph Mercola is a successful anti-vaccine entrepreneur, peddling dietary supplements
#2 is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, a long-standing anti-vaxxer
Read 13 tweets
12 May
Advisory committee @CDCgov meeting now LIVE hhs.gov/live/live-1/in…
Regarding use of @pfizer #COVID19 #vaccine in children aged 12-18 years.
Efficacy in kids is 100%.
hhs.gov/live/live-1/in…
"no serious adverse effects were observed" among 12-18 year old @pfizer #vaccine recipients
hhs.gov/live/live-1/in…
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