Thread by @TheSeeker268

One aspect that stands out in the leaked Project DEFUSE documents: "the team had planned to take sequences from naturally occurring coronaviruses and use them to create a brand new sequence that was an average of all the strains."
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

"This means that they would take various sequences from similar coronaviruses and create a new sequence that is essentially the average of them. It would be a new virus sequence, not a 100 per cent match to anything."

"They would then synthesise the viral genome from the computer sequence, thus creating a virus genome that did not exist in nature but looks natural as it is the average of natural viruses."

"The source said it was noteworthy that the cut-off for generating such an average sequence was viruses that only have five per cent genetic divergence from each other."

"Last year, scientists at WIV said they had found a strain named RaTG13 in bat droppings in a cave in Yunnan province in 2013 which was a 96.1 per cent match to Sars-CoV-2. It means RaTG13 could have been included in a set of viral genomes to help create an average sequence."

Reminder: EHA+WIV had identified more than 180 novel strains.

When something of the magnitude of this pandemic happens, clarifying this seems to be of paramount importance.

https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1440337832472576014?s=20

"The problem is that those opposed to a lab leak scenario will always just say that we need to sample more..."

It's like seeing heaps of smoke coming out of a building but refusing to call the fire department until you see the flames.
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