Posted on Jun 24, 2021
Scientist recovers coronavirus gene sequences secretly deleted last year in Wuhan
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Finding the origin story for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for nearly 3.9 million deaths worldwide, has been largely hampered by lack of access to information from China where cases first popped up.
Now, a researcher in Seattle has dug up deleted files from Google Cloud that reveal 13 partial genetic sequences for some of the earliest cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Carl Zimmer reported for The New York Times.
The sequences don't tip the scales toward or away from one of the many theories about how SARS-CoV-2 came to be — they do not suggest the virus leaked from a high-security lab in Wuhan, nor do they suggest a natural spillover event. But they do firm up the idea that the novel coronavirus was circulating earlier than the first major outbreak at a seafood market.
Now, a researcher in Seattle has dug up deleted files from Google Cloud that reveal 13 partial genetic sequences for some of the earliest cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, Carl Zimmer reported for The New York Times.
The sequences don't tip the scales toward or away from one of the many theories about how SARS-CoV-2 came to be — they do not suggest the virus leaked from a high-security lab in Wuhan, nor do they suggest a natural spillover event. But they do firm up the idea that the novel coronavirus was circulating earlier than the first major outbreak at a seafood market.
Scientist recovers coronavirus gene sequences secretly deleted last year in Wuhan
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China deleted COVID 19 data in possible cover up virologist
China deleted early COVID-19 data in a possible effort to cover up its origins — hindering the World Health Organization’s probe into whether the virus leake...
Thank you my friend Lt Col Charlie Brown for making us aware that Jesse Bloom of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Seattle has found the deleted sequences — likely some of the earliest samples — also were devoid of those mutations. (Bloom is the lead author in a letter published in May in the journal Science urging an unbiased investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, Live Science reported.)
China deleted COVID 19 data in possible cover up virologist
China deleted early COVID-19 data in a possible effort to cover up its origins — hindering the World Health Organization’s probe into whether the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, according to a scientific paper published Wednesday. More than a dozen coronavirus test sequences taken during the pandemic’s early months were removed from an international database used to track the virus’ evolution, according to a report authored by Jesse Bloom, a virologist and evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Bloom concludes that China likely deleted the data from the National Institutes of Health’s Sequence
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China deleted COVID 19 data in possible cover up virologist
China deleted early COVID-19 data in a possible effort to cover up its origins — hindering the World Health Organization’s probe into whether the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, according to a scientific paper published Wednesday. More than a dozen coronavirus test sequences taken during the pandemic’s early months were removed from an international database used to track the virus’ evolution, according to a report authored by Jesse Bloom, a virologist and evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Bloom concludes that China likely deleted the data from the National Institutes of Health’s Sequence
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Jesse Bloom: "Interpreting the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
This week's speaker is Jesse Bloom, an HHMI Investigator and associate professor in the Basic Sciences Division and in the Public Health Sciences Division at...
Jesse Bloom: "Interpreting the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2"
This week's speaker is Jesse Bloom, an HHMI Investigator and associate professor in the Basic Sciences Division and in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbsRJESUYw
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This week's speaker is Jesse Bloom, an HHMI Investigator and associate professor in the Basic Sciences Division and in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbsRJESUYw
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