It’s probably nothing: Monkeys ‘escape with COVID-19 samples’ after attacking lab assistant
Without fossil fuels, we’d be drowning in lung juice.
China keeps giving the West new reasons to decouple.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest: So they kept returning to the Tongguan mine, the source of RaTG13, collecting more and more samples. Here’s a 2018 paper in Chinese. “Uninteresting”, riiiight.
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Not drawing any conclusions from this, but yet…
Ultimately, these observations suggest that by the time SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) was first detected in late 2019, it was already pre-adapted for human transmission – to an extent more similar to late epidemic SARS-CoV rather than early-to-mid epidemic SARS-CoV.
— Alina Chan (@Ayjchan) May 4, 2020
The preprint is here.
Via Yuri Deigin.
Shi’s holy grail was to find a direct bat to human SARS virus. Here she had the signal of fatal pneumonia in the miners & antibodies in the locals. In 2 years of surveillance of the site she found only 1 beta corona virus candidate 4991, yet she didn’t sequence it or publish?
Related: A leaked database from a Chinese military-run university suggests the country may have at least 640,000 COVID-19 cases — a figure substantially higher than Beijing’s dubious claim that it has seen just 80,000 coronavirus infections.
Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Virus Research
Hackers working for the Chinese government are trying to steal valuable research on coronavirus vaccines and treatments from U.S. health care, pharmaceutical and research organizations, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warned Wednesday.
“China’s efforts to target these sectors pose a significant threat to our nation’s response to Covid-19,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation and DHS’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency said in a joint statement.
“The potential theft of this information jeopardizes the delivery of secure, effective and efficient treatment options,” the agencies said.
The announcement represents an escalation in U.S. efforts to combat Chinese espionage and cyber-attacks. It comes as President Donald Trump attempts to blame the Chinese government for not doing more to prevent the global spread of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 80,000 people in the U.S. and ravaged the economy.
“attempts to blame”…
China’s People’s Liberation Army has been involved in scientific research, co-funded by the Australian government, into the origins of the coronavirus which has been published in esteemed medical journals.
In an explosive revelation, a study co-funded by the Australian Research Council and the Chinese government, and trumpeted by The University of Sydney as helping to solve the puzzle of how COVID-19 transferred from animals to humans, relied on a key laboratory in an institute in the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences to conduct its “genetic sequencing” and “virus isolation”.
Also…
It is indeed curious that on Dec 30 Shi Zhengli's database description was changed. In particular, it is interesting to see "vector insects" changed to "rats". Weren't they also working on mosquito-transmitted viruses like Zika/dengue? Why would they start distancing from that? pic.twitter.com/rGGcqY2vLW
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) May 14, 2020
@SharriMarkson of The Daily Telegraph — China’s People’s Liberation Army has conducted the genetic sequencing and virus isolation for scientific research into the origins of Coronavirus which has been published in esteemed medical, Nature.
More in this interview with Steve Bannon this morning.
Be sure to stick around to the 35:30 mark for the Roger Robinson segment.
Did Shi Zhengli's team's own virus database get deleted? It is described as having 61.5 Mb of data here:https://t.co/6gsEinkbOZ
But if I try to download the files from here:https://t.co/D7L7Cjyg8j
All I get is an empty 1 Kb zip file. pic.twitter.com/x1QbvBBu9i
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) May 11, 2020
