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treatment option for Covid-19 five years later. The patent for commercial use of Remdesivir was filed in China. The application was made by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The institute lodged the patent application on January 21, 2020 -- one day after China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the virus, The Daily Mail reported. Asked about this, Bavari said he was not aware the Wuhan Institute of Virology had lodged the patent for Remdesivir. USAMRIID did not respond to requests for comment. [2021-05-25 17:31:34] [Eddie Holmes] I think that wins the most deranged article of the whole pandemic. Published in The Australian. [2021-05-25 17:38:16] [Kristian Andersen] Is there something wrong with the formatting? Because _*none*_ of this makes any sense whatsoever. [2021-05-25 17:39:23] [Kristian Andersen] It honestly reads like a really terrible Google translation of a Chinese document. Hmmmm :thinking_face: [2021-05-25 17:43:34] [Eddie Holmes] It's missing the pictures. Try this: [shared file(s): Re Ugh.pdf] [2021-05-25 17:44:44] [Kristian Andersen] Nope - still the same. Total gibberish. I love the subject line of that email - "Ugh" indeed. [2021-05-25 17:48:21] [Eddie Holmes] The story seems to be that an editor of Virologica Sinica who worked at the USAMRID once went to WIV for a journal meeting. I particularly like the bit about Jens Kuhn also being on the editorial board....if Jens were in charge of WIV they'd have all their viruses beautifully classified by now. [2021-05-25 17:50:28] [Eddie Holmes] Sharri is totally deranged. Off the scale. [2021-05-25 17:52:51] [Kristian Andersen] Completely off the scale. How this gets past editorial, I just don't understand - they must be desperate for anything lab leak related. [2021-05-25 17:57:34] [Eddie Holmes] I would have thought China would be delighted to see USAMRID mentioned. [2021-05-25 18:00:38] [Eddie Holmes] Here's an S gene tree with Weifeng's and Shi's new sequence (green). Clearly a distinct lineage. [shared file(s): RAxML_bipartitions.SpikeNT_MSA_tidy.pdf]