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Last week at the European Congress of Virology in Gdansk #ECV2023 I deep-sixed the raccoon dog market theory of #Covidorigins by questioning Martin Beer, senior author about their key paper (Freuling et al. 2020)
It's over. And you are welcome! See below:
Last week at the European Congress of Virology in Gdansk #ECV2023 I deep-sixed the raccoon dog market theory of #Covidorigins by questioning Martin Beer, senior author about their key paper (Freuling et al. 2020)
It's over. And you are welcome! See below:
https://twitter.com/CD57227/status/1657641350316146688
2/7 I asked why they tested a more transmissible G614 strain and not the original D614 strain, which would have supported or eliminated raccoon dogs as a potential intermediate host.
His answer was not "thanks, good idea we'll jump to it". He stumbled a bit and then, incredibly.
His answer was not "thanks, good idea we'll jump to it". He stumbled a bit and then, incredibly.
He said: I paraphrase slightly: "he didnt know whether D614 or G614 came first"
This is an astonishing answer on many levels.
Absolutely no one thinks that D614 came after G614. Because:
1) D614 was detected first
2) G614 displaced D614 as the pandemic progressed
3) See below...
This is an astonishing answer on many levels.
Absolutely no one thinks that D614 came after G614. Because:
1) D614 was detected first
2) G614 displaced D614 as the pandemic progressed
3) See below...
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3) G614 outcompetes D614 in all known animals and cells,
4) D614 is found in RaTG13 and BANAL-52, the ancestors.
And since, as Prof Beer knows FROM HIS OWN EXPERIMENTS that G614 transmits between ferrets while D614, the original strain does not, this rather suggests....
3) G614 outcompetes D614 in all known animals and cells,
4) D614 is found in RaTG13 and BANAL-52, the ancestors.
And since, as Prof Beer knows FROM HIS OWN EXPERIMENTS that G614 transmits between ferrets while D614, the original strain does not, this rather suggests....
5/7....that testing a D614 strain on raccoon dogs would show they cannot transmit origin strains, thus torpedoing the raccoon dog theory and hence the market origin. Thus he knows, and I know, and the audience at #ECV2023 now knows and shortly twitter will know, that Prof. Beer..
6/7 and his colleagues are well aware that raccoon dogs would not transmit origin strains. They are therefore shamelessly protecting the raccoon dog theory and thus the zoonotic origin of #SARSCoV2 from collapse.
Or maybe, worse, they did the experiment, and they already know,..
Or maybe, worse, they did the experiment, and they already know,..
7/7 but have chosen not to communicate the results.
Whichever way you look at it the raccoon dog theory is no more. Even the establishment cannot defend it.
@R_H_Ebright @franciscodeasis @DavidBahry @Globalbiosec @gdemaneuf @emilyakopp @JamesCTobias @alisonannyoung @Ayjchan
Whichever way you look at it the raccoon dog theory is no more. Even the establishment cannot defend it.
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