Anonymous ID: 83ff4b June 24, 2021, 6:37 p.m. No.13976362   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Scientist recovers coronavirus gene sequences secretly deleted last year in Wuhan

 

He finds 13 sequences from some of the earliest cases in Wuhan.

 

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.

 

https://www.livescience.com/deleted-covid-19-gene-sequences-found.html