MSM Says Virus Started Wu Wu Before Wuhan Seafood Market

Yes folks, the truth is leaking through, even includes suspected multinational censorship.


Edited from full article:
Deleted gene sequences confirm coronavirus circulated before Wuhan seafood market

Karen Weintraub and Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Sun, June 27, 2021, 8:37 AM

The virus that causes COVID-19 did not originate at the Wuhan seafood market, confirms a new study of deleted gene sequences from the virus' earliest days.

The sequences had been posted to a website run by the National Institutes of Health but were removed for unknown reasons.

Finding earlier sequences like these might help reveal new insights into the SARS-CoV-2 virus' earliest days, said Jesse Bloom, the article's author, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

His new report,... whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus jumped directly from animals to people or whether it was accidently leaked from a research lab in Wuhan, China.

But by studying how the viral genes mutate over time, researchers such as Bloom can reconstruct their history, figuring out which cases came first and how the virus changed as it moved through the population.


In looking at one paper from March 2020, he saw evidence of a group of 45 sequences that he hadn't seen elsewhere. When he looked for those sequences, he realized they had been deleted from a National Institutes of Health repository.

Bloom knows that the deletion will raise suspicions in the public, but he says there are many reasons a researcher might ask for material to be taken offline, including the fact that the week the study was posted, the Chinese government instituted a requirement that it review all scientific information related to SARS-CoV-2 before publication.

Bloom reached out to two Chinese researchers to ask why they wanted the information withdrawn but has not heard back.

In a statement, the NIH said the agency is aware of the decision and has reviewed the request. The data was submitted in March 2020 and was asked to be withdrawn in June of the same year.

But Bloom also knew that although the sequences might have been deleted from the NIH database, they had likely been uploaded to the cloud and might still be findable there. And they were.

He was able to analyze 13 of the 45 sequences and noted their differences from those that had already been examined. Looking at the changes, he was able to confirm that sequences taken from people infected at the Wuhan seafood market, where coronavirus infections were once thought to have begun, could not have been the earliest cases.

The missing sequences also help explain why it has been so hard to figure out when and where the virus first began, Bloom said.

It's not clear why early sequences are missing, Bloom said, though it's possible that the government simply doesn't like to release information publicly. He's hopeful other early sequences can be found somewhere without relying on the Chinese government.


Genetic sequences taken from people who caught the virus at the Wuhan seafood market likely had three mutations from the original viral sequence, Pond and Bloom both estimate. "For SARS-CoV-2, 3 mutations translate to about 4-6 weeks of evolution (roughly). Hence the Wuhan market is not a plausible single origin source," Pond said.

Pond agreed there was nothing nefarious about the decision to delete data warehoused on a site run by the U.S. government.

"He has no evidence to prove that this was done in a deliberate way, but it raises suspicions in the way it’s communicated," Topol said.

He's also dubious that the mystery will be solved. "It’s unlikely we’re ever going to get to the bottom of this," Topol said. "Finding the true zoonotic source is never easy. It can take a while, or we may never get there."

If the virus did transfer directly from bats or another animal to humans, as many virologists believe, it should be a simple matter to prove: the Chinese government could make available genetic sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the people infected earliest in the pandemic.


"It would be easy for (the Chinese) to refute this," Topol said. "Bloom gave them an opening, but whether they’ll ever come forth we can’t know."

"Until they become transparent," Topol added, "this is going to stay unsettled."

Contact Karen Weintraub at [email protected] and Elizabeth Weise at [email protected].

 

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