“Where did the
come from?” is one of the most asked questions. First, I don’t like unsupported conspiracy theories, but it’s a lingering question. @sciencemagazine examined this based on Lancet article. Nobody knows, but seafood market isn’t whole storyhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally …
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10. TO BE CLEAR: I am absolutely not saying it’s bioengineering, nor am I supporting any conspiracy theories with no evidence. I’m simply saying scientists need to do more research + get more data. And finding the origin of the virus is an important research priority. Goodnight
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11. Dubbing this the [GENETIC THREAD]
thread, let’s delve back into the genetic similarities of the new
with SARS and bat #coronaviruses. Study in Lancet says ~88% related to closest bat coronavirus, 79% to SARS (which is more than humans-elephants) https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673620302518.pdf …pic.twitter.com/2568DtbsoJ
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12. ...As you can see, the new nCOV is a branch off the bat coronavirus subgenus. It is too distant from SARS (79%) or MERS (only 50% related)pic.twitter.com/A3nxtwt7Jh
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13. For the most part, the new
#coronavirus shares 87-88% overlap with bat coronavirus. But there are parts of it like the “S” gene
region where I drops to ~70%, and even 68% in lowest point. But other gene regions share
consensus as high as 95%.pic.twitter.com/XrIQOfgSOQ
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14. What is in the “S”
region of the #coronavirus? According to the Lancet piece (link
above), it encodes the virus envelop spike protein of the
for binding receptors of host cells - “crucial for host tropism” — which basically identifies how to target
host tissue.pic.twitter.com/rtqjDrtRgw
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15. One source or many sources? The mutation rate suggests the 2019-nCoV came from just one recent source in single jump (as opposed to several mutation sources). This doesn’t mean much other than it wasn’t several strains that started outbreak. Don’t over-interpret. Just FYI.pic.twitter.com/utEN7O4krg
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Have you looked at the kind of person you're inspiring below?
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Please don't discourage him. I value any information I can get, and evaluate it all. Eric's thread is actually a great antidote to some of the wilder stuff I have seen out there. Just because some people (who would do it anyway) go off on a tangent, don't punish the rest of us.
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It was an lab that created this. Someone posted the actual documents they found under an file name and even mentions
#Wuhan in the document and the Seafood market too. I'm not an conspiracy theorist but the dots now are coming more together and showing an pattern here!!! - Još 2 druga odgovora
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