Category: Health
“Gain of Function research hasn’t protected us from this outbreak, hasn’t provided us with any effective treatments or vaccines to save hundreds of thousands of lives lost to CoV2, and if there is even a 0.1% chance GOF research caused the whole thing, that chance is too high”
Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research
CoV2 is an obvious chimera (though not nesessarily a lab-made one), which is based on the ancestral bat strain RaTG13, in which the receptor binding motif (RBM) in its spike protein is replaced by the RBM from a pangolin strain, and in addition, a small but very special stretch of 4 amino acids is inserted, which creates a furin cleavage site that, as virologists have previously established, significantly expands the “repertoire” of the virus in terms of whose cells it can penetrate. More...
South Korean government temporarily suspends AstraZeneca vaccines for people under 60 after a third blood clot in patient after an AstraZeneca shot
The [South Korean] government is temporarily suspending AstraZeneca vaccines for people under 60 after a third blood clot developed in a patient after an AstraZeneca shot. More...
WOW. Unexpected novel Merbecovirus discoveries in agricultural sequencing datasets from Wuhan, China
In this study we document the unexpected discovery of multiple coronaviruses and a BSL-3 pathogen in agricultural cotton and rice sequencing datasets. More...
UK: Under-30s are to be offered an alternative coronavirus jab to the AstraZeneca vaccine due to mounting evidence linking it to rare blood clots
Under-30s are to be offered an alternative Covid jab to the AstraZeneca vaccine due to mounting evidence linking it to rare blood clots, the UK’s vaccine advisory body says.
Detection of 54 cases of the P.1 variant in Massachusetts in less than a month
All three global VoCs (B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1) have now been detected in MA. More...
Identification of a new B.1.1.33 SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Interest (VOI) circulating in Brazil with mutation E484K and multiple deletions in the Spike protein
Here, we report a new SARS-CoV-2 VOI derived from lineage B.1.1.33, preliminary designated as PANGO lineage N.10, harboring 14 lineage defining mutations. More...
New SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus lineage that shares mutations with known Variants of Concern (VOC) reported in 20 states across USA
We report a SARS-CoV-2 lineage that shares N501Y, P681H, and other mutations with known variants of concern, such as B.1.1.7. More...
Recombination and lineage-specific mutations linked to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
In this work, we reconstruct the evolutionary events that have accompanied the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, with a special emphasis on the RBD and its adaptation for binding to its receptor, human ACE2 (hACE2). More...
Sweden: Almost six times as many suspected side effects reported for AstraZeneca’s vaccine compared to Pfizer and Moderna
The Swedish Medical Products Agency has received almost six times as many reports of suspected side effects for AstraZeneca’s vaccine, compared with the other two EU-approved vaccines Pfizer/Biontech and Moderna, in relation to the number of people vaccinated. More...
Brazil: 4195 coronavirus deaths in one day – “It’s a biological Fukushima”
Brazil’s coronavirus catastrophe has deepened further after more than 4,000 daily deaths were reported for the first time since the outbreak began in February last year. More...