Well, according to the below study, it looks like the Wuhan virology lab created nearly identical virus to Covid-19 in 2015. https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 Published: 09 November 2015 A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans. Here we examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations1. Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.
In the video, it demonstrates that the Wuhan virology lab has been experimenting and bio engineering bat coronaviruses to determine human transmission for years.
yes, accidental release of it is one of the poll options. Still, I think people don't realize that 'corona' is a blanket term for a whole slew of virus & the genetics of this COVID 19 still don't point to an engineered pathogen.
Watch the video. A molecular biologist, former Director of Lab of Antiviral Mechanisms NCI, stated that Covid-19 cannot possible be a natural mutation and that it most certainly was bio-engineered. The only person I have seen state that the genetics do not point to an engineered pathogen was the person in the Rogan videos. He offered absolutely no proof or studies to back his claim. Do you have anyone else that actually sites studies or offers any proof of that claim? What information/studies was he relying on?
I watch Sky News Australia quite often as they are actually very factual and useful to get a sense of the news sentiment a day ahead. It is not what is being said but the news source here that interested me.
It looks like the person in the Rogan video was offering a completely subjective opinion without any science whatsoever to back up his statement. Below is a quote from a study published a couple of days ago: "There are too many rapid mutations to neatly trace a COVID-19 family tree. We used a mathematical network algorithm to visualise all the plausible trees simultaneously," said geneticist Dr Peter Forster, lead author from the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Osterholm was on Tucker Carlson's show. By you standards, doesn't that completely discredit Osterholm? LOL https://www.foxnews.com/media/infectious-disease-expert-coronavirus-pandemic-first-inning