7:44 AM 10/24/2022 - Covid-19’s Origins Are More Complicated Than Once Thought - WIRED
7:44 AM 10/24/2022 Russia Jumps on Wild Claims COVID Was Created in U.S. Lab - Newsweek posted at 10:16:51 UTC via "sars-cov-2 can be lab-made" - Google News Russia Jumps on Wild Claims COVID Was Created in U.S. Lab Newsweek Controversial new research suggests SARS-CoV-2 bears signs of genetic engineering A string of about 30,000 genetic letters were all that it took to start the nightmare of covid-19, the death toll from which is likely to be more than 20m. Exactly how this story began has been hotly contested. Many think that covid-19’s emergence was a zoonosis—a spillover, as so many new pathogens are, from wild animals, for it resembles a group of... posted 1h ago via economist.com Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 To prevent future pandemics, it is important that we understand whether SARS-CoV-2 spilled over directly from animals to people, or indirectly in a laboratory accident. The geno...