That was the page taken down by the CCP but saved/archived first elsewhere. WIV.
Last sentence "On the basis of these findings, they synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. The work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations."
I find Fauci beyond disingenuous when he talks about the virus “Evolving naturally and jumping species.”
I am no microbiologist; but, THEY ALL DO THAT.
AIDS was of course a chimpanzee virus SIV-1 that was introduced to humans via polio vaccine trials in the Belgian Congo in 1957 ... and then mutated in human hosts (probably infants who were given the tainted oral vaccine while still teething) into HIV-1.
All the worst bioweapons of the Cold War era, that we know of, were found in the wild and then cultured into more powerful, weaponized forms. This applied to anthrax, smallpox, whatever. None of them were “Created” from scratch.
The same as this current Chinavirus, I am sure: Found in the wild and cultured to have the desired effect: Highly contagious but not extremely lethal ... IDEAL FOR INCAPACITATING the AMERICAN ECONOMY.
Often the best bioweapons are not the most lethal. The Russians allegedly stopped the Wehrmacht assault on Stalingrad with a bug that just made much of the army extremely sick for several weeks ... bogging them all down until Winter arrived.
If this is, as I believe, a deliberate attack; then it is worth wondering what the next biological weapon might be.
Supposedly China sees the biological realm as being key to modern warfare, along with space and cyber. They do not see the next major war as being fought with tanks and planes and missiles.
They probably think they have won the first battle.