“A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that coronavirus causing global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated...
“... in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence...
“... no sign so far that the virus can be found in other animals, including bats or the exotic wildlife sold for fresh meat at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan...
“... team suspects human manipulation in Wuhan because of the unmatched ability of the virus’ protruding spike to infect human cells.”
“The virus’ binding strength for human cells “far exceeds” similar properties for infecting other animals...”
“This, plus the fact that no corresponding virus has been found to exist in nature, leads to the possibility that COVID-19 is a human-created virus,”
“It is therefore entirely plausible that the virus was created in the biosecurity facility in Wuhan by selection on cells expressing human ACE2, a laboratory that was known to be cultivating exotic bat coronaviruses at the time.”
“ACE2 is the acronym for angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, which is on cell surfaces. The enzyme is the entry point the coronavirus uses to infect organisms and spread.”
“Human lung cells contain ACE2 receptors that have been shown to be key targets of the SARS-CoV-2.” #COVID19
“Mr. Petrovsky said the research team believes the quick evolution of the coronavirus and its unique ability to infect humans are either ‘a remarkable coincidence or a sign of human intervention.’”
“... forthcoming study concludes that binding energy of virus’ “spike” protein — crownlike protrusions surrounding surface of round microbe — is highest for humans and greater than all other species tested...”
“This indicates that SARS-CoV-2 is a highly adapted human pathogen,”
The team analyzed spike protein binding of the virus on a range of other animals, including pangolins, civets, mice, hamsters, cats, dogs, snakes, horses, tigers and cows.
“Overall, the data indicates that SARS-CoV-2 is uniquely adapted to infect humans, raising important questions as to whether it arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins might lie elsewhere,”
“Understanding the exact origin of this virus is vital to ensure that all scientific and medical data are interpreted correctly by policymakers and health care professionals alike,”
“Several scientists with obvious conflicts of interest have been permitted to go on the record denying that it would be possible to generate such a virus in a laboratory...
“... and stating specifically that the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 would never have been chosen by any ‘gene jockey,’”
“Both of these denials are not genuine scientific rebuttals, but rather semantic pseudo-denials formulated by some of those most closely tied to the funding of these [gain of function] research lines.”
“... public and private researchers have said it is impossible to dismiss the possibility of an accidental leak from the Wuhan laboratory of what became the COVID-19 strain.”
The Australian study is the second scientific paper to suggest laboratory manipulation played a part.
A group of Indian scientists published a paper on Jan. 31 that found the new coronavirus contained four insertions to the spike protein that are unique to SARS-CoV-2 and not found in other coronaviruses.
Those scientists concluded that similar structures are “unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.”
The Indian paper was withdrawn under pressure from China, but the scientists involved refused to repudiate their research and promised to publish their findings eventually.
“While COVID-19 has close similarities to SARS and other bat viruses, no natural virus matching to COVID-19 has been found in nature despite an intensive search to find its origins,”
“This raises the very legitimate question of whether the COVID-19 virus might be the result of human intervention.”
Australian team did not find easily recognizable artificial gene inserts that would signal virus engineering. Mr. Petrovsky said there are ways to manipulate viruses without such inserts.
“you can force the bat virus to adapt to infect human cells via mutations in its spike protein,” Mr. Petrovsky said.
“The result of these experiments is a virus that is highly virulent in humans but is sufficiently different that it no longer resembles the original bat virus,”
Since those mutations would be acquired randomly in a laboratory, there would be no signature of bioengineering “but this is clearly a virus still created by human intervention.”
Critics say Chinese secrecy has prevented scientists from learning about the virus.
However, “the nature of this event & its proximity to a high-risk biosecurity facility at the epicenter of the outbreak...
... demands a full and independent international inquiry to ascertain whether a virus of this kind of COVID-19 was being cultured in the facility and might have been accidentally released,” Mr. Petrovsky said.
#COVID19 thread I posted earlier...

🔗 https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1261378944537726976?s=21
🤖Kindly compile this thread @threader_app
Thank you!

⚜️Consider donation IF regularly
USE threader apps = #keepUnrollCompileAvailable 💰😁
⚜️ALSO follow @threader_app & @threadreaderapp 👍

🤖Please unroll this thread @threadreaderapp Thank you!
#WakeUp please read ⬆️
::snap snap:: Did you read ⬆️ thread?
You can follow @MartinStarshine.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: