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Quote Originally Posted by UNIMAN: It was widely stated IT WAS NOT FROM A LAB. (and only because Trump said otherwise) Biden Admin has shutdown the Trump admin investigation seeking information it came from that lab. Wonder why???? It came from that lab from sloppy handling. Shutdown of Trump administration investigation because of ineffective use of resources after doubts about legitimacy of discoveries. Trump tries to blame China for pandemic and cherry picks information to support conspiracy theories. Instead Biden orders new report from US intelligence. Unclear how much can be learned in 90 days because of limited cooperation from China and years of investigations required to find origin of other viruses in the past. For doctor Fauci and majority of scientists, evidences supporting animal origin are far stronger than for lab origin. Unlikely National institute of health funds risky research that lead to pandemic. Lab accidents are rare while 75% of new infectious diseases come from animals. Uncertain if sick Wuhan lab workers contract coronavirus. Even if coronavirus comes from lab, no proof that genome has been manipulated. Unlikely bio-engineering leaves no genetic signature.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/06/damning-science-shows-covid-19-likely-engineered-in-lab/
"Writing in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Steven Quay and Richard Muller pointed to two key pieces of evidence to support the claim, which has increasingly gained steam after long being derided as little more than speculation.
The first relates to the nature of gain-of-function research, in which microbiologists tweak a virus’ genome to alter its properties, such as making it more transmissible or more lethal.
Of the 36 possible genome pairings that can produce two arginine amino acids in a row — which results in boosting a virus’ lethality — the one most commonly used in gain-of-function research is CGG-CGG, or double CGG, wrote Quay and Muller.
“The insertion sequence of choice is the double CGG,” wrote Quay, the founder of Atossa Therapeutics, and Muller, a former top scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who now teaches physics at the University of California’s Berkeley campus.
“That’s because it is readily available and convenient, and scientists have a great deal of experience inserting it,” they wrote. “An additional advantage of the double CGG sequence compared with the other 35 possible choices: It creates a useful beacon that permits the scientists to track the insertion in the laboratory.”
The pair noted that the double CGG sequence has never been found naturally among the entire group of coronaviruses that includes CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.
But, in what Quay and Muller called a “damning fact,” it was found in CoV-2."