The scientists in his team discovered that the coronavirus is optimized for penetration into human cells, rather than animal cells, which means that the theory that it emerged from an animal market and jumped to humans naturally is unlikely.
Lifesite News reports that the scientists "Used a version of the novel coronavirus collected in the earliest days of the outbreak and applied computer models to test its capacity to bind to certain cell receptor enzymes, called"ACE2," that allow the virus to infect human and animal cells to varying degrees of efficacy.
The authors believe this means that the virus "became specialized for human cell penetration by living previously in human cells, quite possibly in a laboratory.
"The result of these experiments, according to the doctor, would be "a virus that is highly virulent in humans but is sufficiently different that it no longer resembles the original bat virus."
In a lab dish, the chimeric coronavirus could infect and replicate in primary human airway cells; the virus also was able to infect lung cells in mice.
Wain-Hobson emphasized the fact that this chimeric virus "Grows remarkably well" in human cells, adding that "If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory," Nature News reported.
In an email to LifeSite, Dr Petrovsky said that his study suggests that "There are some highly unusual features, including optimal human adaptation, that in the absence of identification of a close to identical virus in an animal population from which COVID19 could have arisen, would point in the direction of human intervention at some point in the evolution of COVID19."
https://summit.news/2020/05/18/psychotherapist-lockdown-zealots-are-behaving-like-cult-members/
Lifesite News reports that the scientists "Used a version of the novel coronavirus collected in the earliest days of the outbreak and applied computer models to test its capacity to bind to certain cell receptor enzymes, called"ACE2," that allow the virus to infect human and animal cells to varying degrees of efficacy.
The authors believe this means that the virus "became specialized for human cell penetration by living previously in human cells, quite possibly in a laboratory.
"The result of these experiments, according to the doctor, would be "a virus that is highly virulent in humans but is sufficiently different that it no longer resembles the original bat virus."
In a lab dish, the chimeric coronavirus could infect and replicate in primary human airway cells; the virus also was able to infect lung cells in mice.
Wain-Hobson emphasized the fact that this chimeric virus "Grows remarkably well" in human cells, adding that "If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory," Nature News reported.
In an email to LifeSite, Dr Petrovsky said that his study suggests that "There are some highly unusual features, including optimal human adaptation, that in the absence of identification of a close to identical virus in an animal population from which COVID19 could have arisen, would point in the direction of human intervention at some point in the evolution of COVID19."
https://summit.news/2020/05/18/psychotherapist-lockdown-zealots-are-behaving-like-cult-members/
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