Posted on 09/10/2021 6:52:33 PM PDT by Libloather
You’d think this would’ve been one of the first things evaluated.
MAGAthon wrote:
“with caveats, of course, but nonetheless more answers should be available by now - see article date below:
16 July 2020 updated 17 July 2020: Daily Mail UK: Could Covid-19 immunity last for 17 YEARS? Researchers find
SARS patients still have crucial T cells from when they were infected in 2003
The SARS epidemic started in 2003. No cases have been identified since 2004
Some infected people during the outbreak still have crucial white T cells
It suggests they would be protected from SARS re-infection
It offers hope the same could be true for this virus, called SARS-2
By VANESSA CHALMERS
The research, by scientists in Singapore, offers hope the same may be true for SARS-CoV-2 — the name of the coronavirus behind the pandemic...
Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California have also previously said it is ‘tempting to speculate’ that having had a cold could offer some form of immunity.
They found blood samples from people donated in 2015-2018 contained T cells that recognised SARS-Cov-2 and responded to it, publishing their findings in the journal Cell...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8529429/Could-immunity-17-YEARS-Singaporean-researchers-SARS-patients-crucial-T-cells.html
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Ctdonath2, ping to magathon’s post.
This clown is an attention whore, like Schmucky Schumer. Furthermore he is perpetuating this mess.
This clown is an attention whore, like Schmucky Schumer. Furthermore he is perpetuating this mess.
Actually, it's much worse than that!
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) was then and is is now directed and managed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
This article describes the research that actually used gain of function techniques) was published in 2016
This NIAID project, (which actually created the chimeric virus that most likely finally became Covid-19, was a joint effort between NIAID and WIV (Shi Zhengli, director of Wuhan Lab)
From the first paragraph of this article:
“This manuscript describes efforts to extend surveillance beyond sequence analysis, constructing chimeric and full-length zoonotic coronaviruses to evaluate emergence potential. Focusing on SARS-like virus sequences isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats, the results indicate a significant threat posed by WIV1-CoV. Both full-length and chimeric WIV1-CoV readily replicated efficiently in human airway cultures and in vivo, suggesting capability of direct transmission to humans.”
And from the results summary in this article:
Using the SARS-CoV infectious clone as a template (7), we designed and synthesized a full-length infectious clone of WIV1-CoV consisting of six plasmids that could be enzymatically cut, ligated together, and electroporated into cells to rescue replication competent progeny virions (Fig. S1A). In addition to the full-length clone, we also produced WIV1-CoV chimeric virus that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone (WIV1-MA15, Fig. S1B). WIV1-MA15 incorporates the original binding and entry capabilities of WIV1-CoV, but maintains the backbone changes to mouse-adapted SARS-CoV. Importantly, WIV1-MA15 does not incorporate the Y436H mutation in spike that is required for SARS-MA15 pathogenesis (8). Following electroporation into Vero cells, robust stock titers were recovered from both chimeric WIV1-MA15 and WIV1-CoV.
And the connection to Wuhan Labs in China is highlighted in the Acknowledgments:
We thank Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology for access to bat CoV sequences and plasmid of WIV1-CoV spike protein. Research was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the National Institute of Aging of the NIH under Awards U19AI109761 and U19AI107810 (to R.S.B.), AI1085524 (to W.A.M.), and F32AI102561 and K99AG049092 (to V.D.M.). Human airway epithelial cell cultures were supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease under Award NIH DK065988 (to S.H.R.). Support for the generation of the mice expressing human ACE2 was provided by NIH Grants AI076159 and AI079521 (to A.C.S.).
This article was discussed at length in a previous thread, and there is a lot more detail there.
Massive profits, tyrannical central government power, and population control ideologies come to mind.
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