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To: ifinnegan
this is the bottom line as of a few days ago..which could have changed by now

Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · Jan 27 9. BOTTOMLINE: 1) Seafood market not the source. 2) This RNA #coronavirus mutates really fast. 3) 🧬 has unusual middle segment never seen before in any coronavirus. 4) Not from recent mixing. 5) That mystery middle segment encodes protein responsible for entry into host cells.

------------------ and btw, isn't number 5 what the chapel hill virus was designed to do.
53 posted on 01/29/2020 10:30:57 AM PST by RummyChick
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Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · Jan 27 9. BOTTOMLINE: 1) Seafood market not the source.

-->. Yes. Seems to be it wasn't the market.

2) This RNA #coronavirus mutates really fast.

-->. This isn't all that accurate. Fast is a relative term and Coronaviruses have a proof reading sub-unit in their polymerase so they're transcription is much less error prone than a retrovirus.

3) 🧬 has unusual middle segment never seen before in any coronavirus.

-->I've heard this stated but am not sure which scientific article provides the data or what is meant by "unusual middle segment".

4) Not from recent mixing.

--> yes, no signs it is recombinant. It's related most closely to a bat virus found in China.

5) That mystery middle segment encodes protein responsible for entry into host cells.

-->. Not sure about this but am sure that it uses the same surface protein, ACE2, to infect cells as other Coronaviruses. ACE2 is expressed highly in lung capillaries, hence the respiratory effect due to infection.

92 posted on 01/29/2020 11:45:21 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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