#RaTG13

It looks like the universe will not let me have a day off.@Nature just released an Addendum on the WIV's first paper about COVID, explaining what's up with RaTG13, the
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Some "conspiracists" always get it right!Conspiracist, January 2020: "#RaTG13 virus looks like BtCoV/4991 described in an old paper that you didn't cite!" Average scientist, January 2020: Shi Zhengli, July 2020:
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tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe
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Some people are super confused about RaTG13, one of the most closely related viruses to SARS-CoV-2, because of how sparse/disjointed its descriptions have been in interviews and papers. I'll try
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... they just came right out and said it.https://twitter.com/OneOfMany3421/status/1306671434790510595?s=19 Thread:https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1197631383470034951?s=19Stamps:https://twitter.com/tweet_stamp/status/13066735281215037
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For those still following the sordid tale: It's more than a year, and there's no trail of the virus until it caused an outbreak in Wuhan. No precursor strains or
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Going to briefly discuss a new SARS-CoV-2 preprint by the FDA, whose senior author said "was intended to investigate something that could only have happened in a laboratory" according to
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I'm going to try and put this riveting BBC story in context for people who haven't heard about the 2012 Mojiang miners and a potential link to covid/SARS2 before.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55364445 In
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Teamwork... This ought to rattle some cages...1) RaTG13 is incapable of binding to a bat or a pangolin (no binding observed), and is less than 1/1000 the affinity to humans
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If I was an authoritarian regime & wanted to commit bioweapon attack I’d: test it out & inflict it upon my people first, then make sure other countries were infected,
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Get ready. This is going to be an important thread. Election season will be over soon and hopefully more people will devote some attention to this...I'm going to walk through
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Some have reached out to me to ask about the recent preprint by Institut Pasteur International Network on the SARS2-like bat virus that was found in North East Cambodia in
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Excited that COVID-3D has been published in Nature Genetics. This is a great piece of work from the group, but led especially @steffportelli @carlosmr12 @elston_neil and Moshe. This work was
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On to my more contentious of the night.β€œIt’s very funny that everyone is worrying about preprints given that, collectively, journals are not doing a great job of keeping misinformation
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Just became aware of an article from May interviewing experts to debunk lab scenarios for SARS-CoV-2 origins (it was cited in an Atlantic article published today). I'm going to work
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HOT from the press @NatureMicrobiol: SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have diverged from the most closely related bat viruses 40–70 years ago. The findings suggest that the lineage giving rise to
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