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Those virus sequences that were suddenly deleted? They’re back
Seattle Times ^ | July 30, 2021 | Carl Zimmer

Posted on 07/31/2021 5:54:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin

In June, an American scientist discovered that more than 200 genetic sequences from COVID-19 patient samples isolated in China early in the pandemic had puzzlingly been removed...

Wuhan University...sequenced a short stretch of genetic material from virus samples taken from 34 patients at a Wuhan hospital.

The researchers posted their findings online in March 2020. That month, they also uploaded the sequences to an online database called the Sequence Read Archive, which is maintained by the National Institutes of Health...

Bloom became aware of the Wuhan sequences this spring while researching origin of COVID-19. Reading a May 2020 review about early genetic sequences of coronaviruses, he came across a spreadsheet that noted their presence in the Sequence Read Archive.

But Bloom could not find them in the database. He emailed the Chinese scientists on June 6 to ask where the data went but did not get a response.

NIH said that the authors of the study had requested in June 2020 that the sequences be withdrawn from the database.

But a year later, Bloom could not find the sequences on any database.

On July 5, more than a year after the researchers withdrew the sequences from the Sequence Read Archive and two weeks after Bloom’s report was published online, the sequences were quietly uploaded to a database maintained by China National Center for Bioinformation

In their initial reports, the Wuhan researchers wrote that they extracted genetic material from “samples from outpatients with suspected COVID-19 early in the epidemic.” But the entries in the Chinese database now indicate that they were taken from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University on Jan. 30 — almost two months after the earliest reports of COVID-19 in China.

...Bloom felt that it was still worthwhile looking for other sequences of coronaviruses that might be lurking online.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; data; jessebloom; missingdata
When Bloom shared his experience in a report posted online, he wrote that it “seems likely that the sequences were deleted to obscure their existence.”
1 posted on 07/31/2021 5:54:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Fauxcy’s Fault.


2 posted on 07/31/2021 6:04:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: BenLurkin
Bloom may be right, but on the other hand it might have taken them over a year to massage the data. Who knows
3 posted on 07/31/2021 6:22:17 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: BenLurkin

We made a BIG mistake when we ever started trying to have relations of any kind with the Chinese communists. They lie, they cheat, they steal, they murder. In fact, they do everything our parents ever warned us about filthy communism. Why didn’t we listen?

Yeah, I’m talking about Richard Nixon, the stupid rino.


4 posted on 07/31/2021 6:23:17 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Bullish

Disagree ! It was a smart move strategically at the the time. It helped collapse the Soviet Union. The mistake was our failure to adequately support the Tiananmen Square dissidents. Then convincing ourselves it did matter that we failed to do it.


5 posted on 07/31/2021 6:29:41 PM PDT by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, Because Dr. Fauci and his co-investors in the Bioweapons, the ones he purchased and developed with US Taxpayer Dollars in / from Communist Red China, are selectively releasing various strains to keep the disease and panic going.


6 posted on 07/31/2021 7:38:33 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: BenLurkin

I read a story a while back that China was DESPERATE to find/create a plausible link between bats, something else, and humans. These samples just “reappearing” would make me VERY suspicious that they had been doctored to try to make that connection happen.


7 posted on 07/31/2021 7:46:24 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Bullish

Concur. The foundation of communism is lies, envy, hatred, theft, and murder. You covered most of it.


8 posted on 07/31/2021 7:53:32 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789! )
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To: Reily

The Soviet union was already in the process of creating it’s own “collapse”, which is what communism always accomplishes in the long run. We didn’t need to pick sides of which communist regime we should have relations with and we shouldn’t have. We should have rejected communism outright, not try to be friends with any of them. Look where it’s gotten us, China is already, in our lifetimes, a huge threat to us and our way of lives. Consider, it appears they may have even used a biological weapon on us (covid).

People of my age (60ish), were warned over and over again, most of us by our parents, teachers and clergy. How did we ever blow off all of that wisdom and knowledge?

The downfall started when Nixon visited China and opened ‘friendly’ relations with them instead of treating them like the filthy greedy lying communists they are and refusing to accept communism in any form.


9 posted on 07/31/2021 8:00:50 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Bullish

We were warned about foreign entanglements long ago. Now there are loads of Chinese spies here. Feinstein’s personal driver for 20 years was a Chinese spy. The Chinese played her like a fiddle, way up in her business. And it all magically went away like it was something insignificant.


10 posted on 07/31/2021 8:11:54 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin

We might need additional Greek alphabets!


11 posted on 07/31/2021 8:29:35 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: dragnet2

Yeah, and Eric Swalwell’s Chinese girlfriend and confidant turned out to be a Chinese agent. She hightailed it to China when she was found out, but Swawlwell still sits on Pelosi’s intelligence committee. Things like this are a HUGE problem, but it gets totally ignored.


12 posted on 07/31/2021 8:55:03 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: FrankRizzo890

The very first “covid” thread on FR last year blamed *snakes*, because there’s just so many viruses that can pass from *reptiles* to humans.
/insert massive eye roll, here

I knew instantly this was nothing but the WuFluCoup meant to get rid of Trump.


13 posted on 07/31/2021 9:04:35 PM PDT by Salamander (We Have Forgotten The Faces Of Our Fathers....)
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To: Bullish

The good “chess move” was followed by bad ones, the bad ones don’t negate the good one.


14 posted on 08/01/2021 5:25:59 AM PDT by Reily
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