[Enlightened1]

Baric’s study on the SHC014-chimeric coronavirus began before the moratorium was announced, and the NIH allowed it to proceed during a review process, which eventually led to the conclusion that the work did not fall under the new restrictions, Baric told Nature. But some researchers, like Wain-Hobson, disagree with that decision.

The debate comes down to how informative the results are. “The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk,” Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University, told Nature.

But Baric and others argued the study’s importance. “[The results] move this virus from a candidate emerging pathogen to a clear and present danger,” Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, which samples viruses from animals and people in emerging-diseases hotspots across the globe, told Nature.

[relictele]

Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate

'Hell any good brand of scotch will do that' - Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer

[Jewbacca]

Especially when in the hands of Me So Clumsy and Ho Lee Fuk.

100% guarantee this was an accidental lab release.

[Enlightened1]

This article is from November 16, 2015 about Coronavirus.

It is man made bio weapon, and came from a lab in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Check out the debate about this in 2012 and 2014.

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/deliberating-over-danger-41174

and

https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/moratorium-on-gain-of-function-research-36564

[Rockingham]

This is quite a find. Thank you.

[IndispensableDestiny]

IN 2017, Tonix Pharmaceuticals synthesised horsepox form DNA strands and published their work. Horsepox is eradicated in the wild. The same technique could have been used to synthesize smallpox.

[null and void]

“These studies, however, also entail biosafety and biosecurity risks, which need to be understood better.”

Ya THINK?!??!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting at the link.

[4Liberty]

[VTenigma]

So the chi-coms were mucking around with “gain of function” experiments on SARS/nCoV and it got away from them. Now no researcher can assess the trajectory the virus may take. It may mutate to a more benign form or it may become far more virulent. Thanks China. This is what happens when totalitarians think they should run the world.

[9YearLurker]

Apparently there’s a record of China having essentially bought this virus from the lab at the University of North Carolina.