US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins

Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by tim333 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:19AM (#26131381)

>Sars-Cov-2 looks like pretty much what it is: a zoonotic virus that "doesn't know what's going on"

It was actually remarkably stable in the early days suggesting it was used to reproducing in human cells. Or so Professor Petrovsky says https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8356751/How-COVID-1...

As how that could have happened lab wise here's Daszak saying they routinely infect human cells with coronavirus in the lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1701&v=IdYDL_RK--w&feature=y...

Or maybe it was in humans a bit before it took off. I see Daszak's kind of changed his tune a bit these days to not mention anything like that lab stuff.

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Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by raverbashing on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:04AM (#26131665)

"Human cells" are mammal cells. Macaques and Golden Hamsters can get sick with Covid-19

The common Flu can infect horses and even chickens. "stability in human cells" means pretty much nothing

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Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by tim333 on Sunday February 14, 2021 @08:31AM (#26132231)

I mean stability in that the sequence of the virus is much the same as it was a month before. That's not true when a virus jumps species - they evolve rapidly to the new species.

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