COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say

NY Post ^ | August 15 2020 | Isabel Vincent

[knighthawk]

The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 — deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats.

Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit Bioscience Resource Project in Ithaca, arrived at their finding after translating a 66-page master’s thesis from the Chinese medical doctor who treated the miners and sent their tissue samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing.

“The evidence it contains has led us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Latham and Wilson wrote in an article published July 15 on their website, “Independent Science News.”

[Brooklyn Attitude]

From the Latham and Wilson Article

“The Mojiang mine and the Master’s thesis
In our own search to resolve the COVID-19 origin question we chose to focus on the provenance of the coronavirus genome sequences BtCoV/4991 and RaTG13, since these are the most closely related sequences to SARS-CoV-2 (98.7% and 96.2% identical respectively). See FIG 1. (reproduced from P. Zhou et al., 2020).”

SARS-Cov-2 is not an exact match with the viruses taken from the miners or obtained from the cave.

[FamiliarFace]

***Speaking of “Gain of Function” I’ll just drop this here...

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This article is very informative:
Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research***

Thanks, I’ll have to look into this more.

[MortMan]

These scientists translate a chinese report, and they claim it is groundbreaking information that media credit to the American scientists... Convenient.

[Bob Ireland]

Ping pong

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda is trying really hard to convince us that this did not come from the Wuhan lab.

[vetvetdoug]

This gives me insight to what an epidemiologist friend of mine that works at Cornell is telling me with those working on the Wuhan Virus. Our discussion about this virus back in January was prescient as the epidemiologist was in China at the time.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

[dirtymac]

Another BS article. It wasn’t China’s fault.
Yes it was.