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Re:Covid-19 and HIV: Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole by gus_massa on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:05AM (#22923109)
It is the last article linked Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag

The important part is in Table 1. If you take a look at the coincidences, the first two are equal but very short. The third one has a hole and it has a few differences

  RSYL---TPGDSSSG
  RTYLFNETRGNSSSG
The fourth one has also a big hole, but they are using another strain of the virus. This article has a more detailed analysis https://theprepared.com/blog/no-the-2019-ncov-genome-doesnt-...
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Re:Covid-19 and HIV: Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole by sarahnadav on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:12AM (#22923160)
I included that study but it was retracted later. I believe that it is still valuable in the context of the bigger picture of research and the conversation on the subject.

There is other peer-reviewed research which is included

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Re:Covid-19 and HIV: Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole by gus_massa on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:59PM (#22925772)
I think it was never officialy published. The other research articles don't claim that Covid-19 has copies of parts of HIV.
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Re:Covid-19 and HIV: Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole by sarahnadav on Monday April 20, 2020 @01:15PM (#22925955)
No- they claim that it attacks T-cells like HIV
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