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The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday.
First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019: study
US Confirms Wuhan Virus Sequences Were Removed From Database US Confirms Wuhan Virus Sequences Were Removed From Database The data, first submitted to the U.S.-based Sequence Read Archive in March 2020, were "requested to be withdrawn" by the same researcher three months later in June, the U.S. National Institutes of Health said. The researcher asked that the data be removed "to avoid version control issues" (File) Highlights The genetic sequences came from the Chinese city of Wuhan Joe Biden has ordered American intelligence agencies to probe issue Details of the genetic makeup of some o...
Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. In a world starved for any fresh data to help clarify the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study claiming to have unearthed early sequences of SARS-CoV-2 that were deliberately hidden was bound to ignite a sizzling debate. The unreviewed paper, by evolutionary biologist Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, asserts that a team of Chinese researchers sampled viruses from some of the earliest COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, posted the viral sequences to a widely used U.S. database, and then a...
/ AP Medical workers move the body of a person who had died from COVID-19 at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Feb. 16, 2020. Thirteen genetic sequences — isolated from people with COVID-19 infections in the early days of the pandemic in China — were mysteriously deleted from an online database last year but have now been recovered. Jesse Bloom, a computational biologist and specialist in viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, found that the sequences had been removed from an online database at the request of scientists in Wuhan, China. But with some int...