Thanks very much for posting that debunking of the original article. I suspected as much. I was making the case this is not a “good” weaponized virus because it just isn’t “well designed” to be a weapon. No weaponized bioweapon would have its characteristics. It acts like a normal influenza infection. . .
You dont’ take something you intend to create a bioweapon from and ‘poof’, make one change and it’s got 90% virulence.
It’s a step by step process.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191
Read that paper.
Healthy 35yr old male non smoker.
6ish days after admission, while on lots of antibiotics (they STARTED him on vanc) he STILL developed serious pneumonia. Serious enough to need supplemental O2. Developed this almost overnight. I’ve had pneumonia several times, never needed O2. Ditto hubby and lots of people I know.
So, he apparently had the symptoms of a bad cold, was able to be ambulatory the whole time, up until he developed pneumonia serious enough to need supplemental O2 literally overnight.
The good news is, once they gave him that Gilead molecule things improved just as quickly.
Let’s hope we have a couple hundred million rounds of that Gilead molecule and that we don’t depend on China or India for its manufacture (not holding my breath here).
So it looks like the demographic picture we’ve gotten from China (just the old and sick are affected) might NOT actually be true. They might be saying this for THEIR own population’s consumption.
Read the paper, it’s interesting.
And then pray we have enough of that Gilead molecule and this virus doesn’t mutate significantly enough that that cmpd no longer works...