Posted on 02/27/2020 12:14:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Nearly two months after news of the novel coronavirus first emerged in China, there is still much that scientists don’t know about the source of the outbreak.
The race to find the virus’s provenance, however, has been made more difficult by the Chinese regime’s lack of transparency, according to experts.
“There are so many questions about the origins of the virus because the Chinese government didn’t provide enough transparency regarding the early investigation of the outbreak,” Sean Lin, a former virology researcher for the U.S. Army, told The Epoch Times.
Chief among these questions is where the outbreak originated.
While Chinese officials have suspected the birthplace of the outbreak to be the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a wild animal and seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, recent developments cast doubt on that claim.
A Jan. 24 study by a group of Chinese researchers published in The Lancet medical journal analyzed the first 41 cases of coronavirus patients in Wuhan and found that 14 out of those patients had no link to the seafood market.
Crucially, the researchers could not find an “epidemiological link” between the first patient, who became ill on Dec. 1, 2019, and later patients. That date also contradicts reports from Chinese health authorities, who said the first patient exhibited symptoms on Dec. 8, 2019.
One of the study’s authors later confirmed to the BBC that the first patient was a man in his 70s who was bedridden after suffering a stroke. He didn’t have a connection to the market—a revelation that opens up the possibility that the virus may have spread elsewhere before entering the market.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Geewhiz! Gooly gosh!
Call me shocked with 5000 V
Just proceed with the assumption it’s a bio-weapon. How hard is that?
Doing so would require punishment by the world community, and that sure as hell isn’t happening.
A Chinese journalist, in Taiwan, said Chinese people have been eating bats and other animals for thousand years and this never happened before, so that cannot be it...............
My guess is some worker at the bio-lab screwed up and got infected, then went to the outside world and spread it.............
ChiComs released this virus on purpose. As Mao once said, Whats 200 million lives?
How much transparency can we expect, from a totalitarian government, and a system in which, errors discovered or admitted to, result in severe punishment? We will probably never know the truth.
China wants to maintain plausible deniability in relation to their culpability in the origin of the coronavirus. Hint: The disease did NOT come from bat guano.
But the story about its origin did. As in bat-guano crazy thinking.
RE: My guess is some worker at the bio-lab screwed up and got infected, then went to the outside world and spread it.............
It is looking more and more like this is the case.
See here:
TITLE: Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
* Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology concludes that ‘the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan
* It points to research on bats and respiratory diseases carried by the animals at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WCDC) and the Wuhan Institute of Virology
* WCDC is just 300 yards from the seafood market and is adjacent to the hospital
FROM THE ARTICLE:
The novel coronavirus was found to have 96.2 percent genetic similarity to a coronavirus found in a horseshoe bat in 2013, called RaTG13, in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province—1,000 miles from Wuhan. Interestingly, Chinese scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology didn’t publish the genome for RaTG13 until Jan. 23 this year.
Yuhong Dong, a viral infectious diseases expert and chief scientific officer at the Swiss-based biotech firm SunRegen Healthcare, told The Epoch Times that such a genetic similarity isn’t enough to justify that RaTG13 is a direct source of SARS-CoV-2, as a similarity of around 99.9 percent is needed to be identified as an immediate ancestor.
Coronaviruses have more than 30,000 RNA nucleic acid bases. Even a genetic difference of only 4 percent means that at least 1,200 bases are different. This difference of 1200 bases is still significant, Dong said.
Recently, scientists at the South China Agricultural University in China’s Guangdong Province announced that SARS-CoV-2 had a 99 percent match to a coronavirus identified in pangolins—suggesting that the scaled animal may have served as an intermediate host.
The team of scientists reviewed more than 1,000 samples and found 70 percent of the pangolins carried viruses from the same family of pathogens as SARS-CoV-2.
However, they haven’t released the study or any data from the testing. They also haven’t disclosed where the pangolins they tested came from, making their claim impossible to verify
“ChiComs released this virus on purpose. “
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I admit I wasn’t thinking that at the beginning.
However, with the amount of folks under their control they could actually cause massive harm via death and economic destruction outside their country and as long as they remain in control of the military the Communist leaders could stay in total control.
Millions of deaths wouldn’t phase them.
Richard H. Ebright, laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology and a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University did leave open the possibility that the virus entered the human population through a laboratory accident, “because the bat coronavirus RaTG13 and closely related bat coronaviruses also are known to have been present in a lab,” he told The Street website, referring to the coronavirus collection at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “The first human infection also could have occurred as a lab accident.”
SEE HERE:
https://www.thestreet.com/latest-news/was-the-coronavirus-outbreak-caused-by-a-lab-accident
Now, if you can believe the Chinese Government, The Wuhan Institute, located a few miles from the Huanan market, has publicly denied it was the source of the outbreak.
I think this virus is stolen intellectual property, just like everything else in China. These guys just didn’t know how to build a modern Level4 facility.
RE: I think this virus is stolen intellectual property, just like everything else in China
From which country? Or if not from other countries, from which lab or company in the USA?
There were rumors regarding a lab in Canada, but who knows.
boy-O-boy!!
Another … “experts say”
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I nominate Brennan and Clapper.
For sure, SeekAndFind, I do not accept what the Chinese government puts out as truth. Not by a long shot.
I just read the most recent article about the bat coronavirus RaTG13.
Some human had to tweak the Co-vid19 to include those elements from the bat coronavirus.
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