“I did read a preprint where scientists from India analyzed the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the summer of 2020 and found components similar to the HIV virus but that paper was never published and all references to it was scrubbed from the Internet. “
You may be thinking of this preprint paper that finds “4 discontiguous short stretches of amino acids” that “share amino acid identity or similarity with HIV-1 gp120 and HIV-1 Gag”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1
It’s a preprint from January 2020. They apparently didn’t follow up on this idea one else seems to have pursued it either. It looks like it could be the sole source for the HIV-SARS2 theory.
You might find this interesting:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033698/#!po=22.7273
“Sequences that completely match the insertion 3 and 4 sequences were not found in any HIV-1 sequences. This clearly shows that these insertion sequences are widely present in living organisms including viruses, but not HIV-1 specific. All these regions in HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein are highly variable with many large insertions and deletions, indicating that they are not essential for biological functions of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein.
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Second, these insertions are present not only in 2019-nCoV viruses but also in three betaCoV sequences from bats: two (ZC45 and ZXC21) from Zhejiang deposited in GenBank in 2018 and RaTG13 from Yunnan obtained in 2013 [8]. The RaTG13 is much more similar to 2019-nCoV than both ZC45 and ZXC21 (Figure 1A). The similarity of the spike protein between RaTG13 and 2019-nCoV is 97.7%.”
Above already posted here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3983555/posts?page=63#63
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1
That’s it, you found the needle in a hay stack for sure. Sadly it’s just the abstract. I remember the full manuscript contained detailed illustrations of the insertions. The edited structures within the spike protein are highlighted.
Looked reasonable to me but I am not a virologist, epidemiologist or immunologist. But my background in physics has provided a foundation to understand other arenas of science. I have lost trust in the medical community but I still hold the science of medicine, specifically, molecular biology, in high regard. Thank you so much.
This came up on my radar today, good science writing and easy to understand.
The Covid Jabs’ Mechanisms of Injury,
https://americafirstreport.com/the-covid-jabs-mechanisms-of-injury/