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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Covid Lab Leak Theory
« Last post by Primemuscle on Today at 08:15:26 PM »I cut and pasted the link. It originated here: https://zenodo.org/records/4477081#.YBd8-i1h3T8
Thanks for doing this. I have now read it did a little research on Dr. Steven Quay.
Dr. Quay has been a prominent advocate for the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak hypothesis, since 2020, about year after the first known case.
Dr. Quay’s conclusions are highly controversial and largely rejected by mainstream evolutionary virologists.
Dr. Quay is not a professional virologist.
Most established evolutionary biologists and virologists dispute his findings.
Steven Quay said in his opening remarks to members of the subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, “In natural zoonoses the animal is in nature, a cave, a farm, or a market. The infected human comes in contact with that animal.
For lab-acquired zoonoses the animal is in a laboratory, or in cells from an animal in a petri dish and the human works in the lab.” So, in effect he is acknowledging zoonoses, just not that it also it could have happened outside the lab.
That the earliest known patients were infected with the "earliest virus" is debatable. Peer-reviewed genomic studies imply that the earliest known cases started from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.
Most likely where and how the virus started is neither absolutely provable. However, the first cases were confirmed to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 which is the coronavirus strain which causes the infectious disease COVID-19 responsible for the global pandemic.
I will say that in my opinion, after reading Dr. Quay’s testimony to the subcommittee, some of what he reported is fairly compelling. Not that my opinion is worth much since I am not an expert on COVID, how, or where it started.

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