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WTF is this:
SHC014-CoVSHC014-CoV is SARS-like coronavirus which infects horseshoe bats, first discovered in China in 2013. In 2015, the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted research showing the virus could be made to infect the human HeLa cell line, through the use of reverse genetics to create a chimeric virus consisting of a surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of a SARS virus.
Update (March 11, 2020): On social media and news outlets, a theory has circulated that the coronavirus at the root of the COVID-19 outbreak originated in a research lab.
"Scientists say there is no evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped from a lab."Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers DebateThe creation of a chimeric SARS-like virus has scientists discussing the risks of
gain-of-function research.
Nov 16, 2015
Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team's efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team's results, which were published in Nature Medicine.
The results demonstrate the ability of the SHC014 surface protein to bind and infect human cells, validating concerns that this virus—or other coronaviruses found in bat species—may be capable of making the leap to people without first evolving in an intermediate host, Nature reported. They also reignite a debate about whether that information justifies the risk of such work, known as gain-of-function research. "If the [new] virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory," Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, told Nature.
In October 2013, the US government put a stop to all federal funding for gain-of-function studies, with particular concern rising about influenza, SARS, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). "NIH [National Institutes of Health] has funded such studies because they help define the fundamental nature of human-pathogen interactions, enable the assessment of the pandemic potential of emerging infectious agents, and inform public health and preparedness efforts," NIH Director Francis Collins said in a statement at the time. "These studies, however, also entail biosafety and biosecurity risks, which need to be understood better."
Baric's study on the SHC014-chimeric coronavirus began before the moratorium was announced, and the NIH allowed it to proceed during a review process, which eventually led to the conclusion that the work did not fall under the new restrictions, Baric told Nature. But some researchers, like Wain-Hobson, disagree with that decision.
The debate comes down to how informative the results are. "The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk," Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University, told Nature.
But Baric and others argued the study's importance. "The result move this virus from a candidate emerging pathogen to a clear and present danger," Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, which samples viruses from animals and people in emerging-diseases hotspots across the globe, told Nature.
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hmmm so basically multiple Governments have been fucking around toying with
SHC014-CoV in research labs as bio-weapon for around 5 years???!
maybe the Oligarchs & political leaders are worried since they travel the globe shaking hands with random people constantly...
& they tend being in the prime kill zone age range for C19...
plus they have inside intelligence on what C19 actually is...
just taking guess...
~shrug~
Nothing to see here folks... move along... keep moving... KEEP MOVING!
LOCK IT ALL DOWN
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/virus-experiments-risk-global-pandemichttps://www.businessinsider.com/nih-lifts-ban-on-flu-mers-sars-virus-gain-of-function-research-2017-12?op=1Multiple Gov backed researchers have been fucking around with creating increased "Gain of Function" pandemics recently....
Bill & Melinda Gates have supposedly gone for Safe Virus Free Zone...
What's up with that???
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/13/bill-gates-leaves-microsoft-board.html