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Curefinder? I tried it and got arsefinger.
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Use a proper translator... This one should be easy :wink:
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2020-05-24 15:26
Edward C. Holmes
Although CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government, what she said rang true to me.
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Yes, although I don't buy her "we were only interested in SARS-like CoVs, and something like SARS-CoV-2 is too far away from that, so we'd never have it here". That's just not true and not a good argument. I liked her commentson RaTG13 though, because it displays something important which she didn't say - yes, they have a lot of samples from bats and other animals - as well as a lot of sequences - but taking a sample and growing an actual virus out ofit is really, really difficult. So with tens of thousands of samples (most of them with no SARS-like viruses in them), one could only hope to maybe grow out a handful of viruses - what's the chance of out of that handful, one of them would be a super-charged pandemic virus?
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Yes, I agree. And surely you'd only grow a virus that you sequenced and likely published?
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Yes to the former, but not the latter - no, I don't think they would have published their sequences before also havinggrown it (however, somebody should have known about such a sequence if it existed and I'm pretty sure something would have been leaked by now)
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One that latter point, I am struck by the complete lack of intelligence on this: surely, if they were growing a virus inthe lab, incident or not, there would be standard chatter about it on email, text, weichat, whatever, but there's nothing. There's a mountain of chatter about the pneumonia cases in Wuhan back in December before the disease was officially reported, but there is nothing about the lab.