Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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"Blaming humans for disease is as old as time itself. It’s inherently hard to trace outbreaks that take tangled paths from their origin point to where they’re first detected. Without firm answers, humankind loves to invent stories, from the of the 14th century to the 2009 outbreak. In the absence of certainty, both sets of theories—natural or man-made—seem plausible: like , for virology."
1. In 2015, Professor Ralph S. Baric funded Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli to help her locate the gene variation fragments for transmitting SARS called SHC014. Baric then synthesized it into a new type of virus at the Fort Detrick laboratory which is the COVID-19 today.
From Baric's paper:
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology for access to bat CoV sequences and plasmid of WIV1-CoV spike protein. Research was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the National Institute of Aging of the NIH under Awards U19AI109761 and U19AI107810 (to R.S.B.), AI1085524 (to W.A.M.), and F32AI102561 and K99AG049092 (to V.D.M.). Human airway epithelial cell cultures were supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease under Award NIH DK065988 (to S.H.R.). Support for the generation of the mice expressing human ACE2 was provided by NIH Grants AI076159 and AI079521 (to A.C.S.).What is even more interesting is the strong correlation of Baric's paper written in 2016 to that twitter claim inside this post.
Chen Weihua bringing the fire
Looks like Lijian has competition for being my favourite troll
Looks like Lijian has competition for being my favourite troll
NYT is a complete garbage now for not calling out Taiwan for playing politics and still trying to blame China.
It gets better, a new version of Delta has been discovered in India, it's been termed "Delta Plus"
Are they doing enough testing and vaccination? Their new cases are down, but do you really trust their government? Their stock market still goes up, despite economic lockdown measures?
Obviously, the US is not doing enough testing and vaccination rate is problematic in some states. However, the positive rate of covid is still low. So in the short term, the US probably would be fine. However, if the UK is any guide, then I would say a month or two from now the covid cases would go up again.