Mn! Per the failing NYT!
New data links pandemic’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them.
Here's the pre-print that you've been anxiously awaiting. Hot off the presses, dated yesterday.
The authors do mention the determination by China's CDC early .......
"We downloaded the public data to search for genetic sequences
from non-human animals, which the CCDC did not identify in their February 2022 preprint.
The preprint also posited that all SARS-CoV-2-positive samples in the market were the
result of human infections, claiming that the market was a site of amplification of an already
widespread epidemic."
And tho the data from Gao et al is now unavailable for analysis, the hypothesis of the authors appears to be that an infected intermediary animal is the source of human infection. No infected animal has been found.
But "Although we cannot identify the intermediate animal host species from these data, a
plausible explanation for the co-occurence of the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 and
susceptible animals is that a subset of these animals were infected."
You can click on the file market env report.pdf to access the report.
And "We are proponents of open data sharing."
Good luck getting any of co-author Edward Holmes out of Australia. FOIA requests have so far been unsuccessful.
The same goes with UNC and the work of Ralph Baric.
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