COVID-19 genome would show it was made in the lab

The new coronavirus contains a segment called CGG-CGG, which is considered rare even in experiments in which researchers manipulate the virus. But what is even more revealing is that this combination never found naturally in any other type of coronavirus, including SARS and MERS, which are its cousins.

This is ensured by a damning essay as it claims that COVID-19 genome sequencing strongly suggests that the virus was generated in a chinese lab. The work was done by Drs Stephen Quay, CEO of biopharmaceutical company Atossa Therapeutics Inc, and Richard Muller, professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, in the Wall Street Journal.

What are they based on?

• There are 36 DNA segments, made up of three-letter “words” that viruses use to make an amino acid called L-arginine.
• L-arginine helps make proteins, but is also frequently used in so-called ‘gain-of-function’ research, which modifies viruses to make them more transmissible and more deadly.

“A virus simply cannot recover a sequence from another virus if that sequence is not present in any other virus,” wrote Quay and Muller. “The CGG-CGG combination has never been found naturally. This means that the common method used by viruses to seize new abilities, called recombinationYou cannot apply here, ”they point out.

The lawsuit comes after an explosive study last week claimed Chinese scientists created COVID-19 in the Wuhan lab, then tried to cover their tracks with versions of reverse engineered virus to give the impression that it evolved naturally from bats.

// Crosses between the United States and China for the version that scientists at the Wuhan Center for Virology had COVID-19 before the outbreak of the pandemic

The research duo concluded: “Yes, it could have happened by chance, by mutation. But do you believe it? At the very least, this fact (that the coronavirus, with all of its random possibilities, has taken on the rare, unnatural combination used by human researchers) implies that the main theory for the origin of the coronavirus must be laboratory escape. . “

The theory of laboratory filtration was initially discarded by the media and academia. President Joe Biden last week ordered intelligence agencies to launch an investigation into whether COVID was man-made.

Circumstantial evidence has long raised questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the researchers were known to conduct experiments with bat coronavirus strains similar to that responsible for COVID-19.

China insisted early on that the virus did not leak from the lab, claiming that the crossbreeding with humans must have taken place in a “wet market” in Wuhan that sold live animals. They argue that this theory is “extremely impossible” and accuse the United States of “political manipulation”.