#RaTG13

Mr. Pepe (T cell evolved) 🐸

realCOVID19_

Daily reminder:— Coronavirus main host is a bat— Bats are not found in Wuhan/Hubei region— Bats would have been hibernating around time of the outbreak— COVID19 is extremely susceptible to

Peter Daszak

PeterDaszak

More details on likely evolutionary timescales behind bat-to-human COVID emergence. Interesting work from @robertson_lab @UofGlasgow @CVRinfo suggests 1) SARS2-lineage bat-CoVs have been circulating for few decades (in bats!).....https://ww

DrSmith

idomyownexpts

1/n It is vital we get objective analyses of the SARS-CoV2 origin to prevent future outbreaks and recurrence. This long thread details what I’ve learned, hoping to encourage those with

Francisco de Asis

franciscodeasis

[Thread] New data on the Tongguan mine (Mojiang, Pu'er, Yunnan) where RaTG13 virus was collected in 2013.Previous threads:- Probable Location:https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/1301112346417549315- Probable outline:https://twitt

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

The Tide is Turning, MY Friends!1/x Essential ReadingBotao Xiao & Lei Xiao“Possible origins of 2091-nCoV coronavirus,”https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/114720192-5eb8307f-017c-4075-a697-348628da0204.pdf.Coronavi

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

So frustrating for scientists to find that data regarding SARS2 natural origins cannot be accessed. Today, we discovered that the Natural Insertions paper published on June 8 in @CurrentBiology doesn't

Rossana Segreto

Rossana38510044

1/ Was the pandemic caused by SARS2 the result of vaccine research gone wrong? The following thread is the product of a DRASTIC* investigation: the possibility that SARS2 and RaTG13

MacKenzie

Smackenziekerr

What I don't understand is that she claims that the #covid virus has been patented. So we cannot patent a virus if it is #natural, that would be nonsense. So

ice9

__ice9

For reference, here is the recent report alleging a potentially artificial origin for SARS-CoV-2, from virologist Li-Meng Yan.https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_G1mhKg2zhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_YanYan recently fled Hong Kong

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

New perspectives piece in ⁦@NatureCommsWonder what all these scientists could be talking about...⁩“actors may be incentivized to be reckless if they believe they are unlikely to be held accountable for

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

A thread on the origins of COVID-19, and a possible bio-containment failure at one of the Wuhan labs. I feel there are facts not enough people know about, so I

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s.https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 "I hadn’t interviewed s

Paul Nightingale

Nightingale_P

I was going to do a thread on how to understand the risks of Covid-10 infection. But it all got too complicated, so I’m going to summarise what I have

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

Let Uncle Ralph educate youSynthetic Viral Genomics: Risks and Benefits for Science and Society https://www.jcvi.org/sites/default/files/assets/projects/synthetic-genomics-options-for-governance/Baric-Synthetic-Viral-Genomics.pdf "Alte

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

One question that many people ask me is "how likely is a lab escape vs natural origins of SARS2?"And everyone complains when I refuse to give some kind of probability

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