Old samples have re-emerged in Google cloud
About a year ago, genetic sequences from more than 200 virus samples from early cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan disappeared from an online scientific database, however, some of them have apparently tipped up on the Google cloud.
A researcher in Seattle, Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre found the samples say they provide new information for discerning when and how the virus may have spilt over from a bat or another animal into humans.
According to Apple Fanzine, the New York Times, the new analysis, released on Tuesday, bolsters earlier suggestions that a variety of coronaviruses may have been circulating in Wuhan before the initial outbreaks linked to animal and seafood markets in December 2019. Bloom's study neither strengthens nor discounts the hypothesis that the pathogen leaked out of a famous Wuhan lab. But it does raise questions about why original sequences were deleted and suggest that there may be more revelations to recover from the far corners of the internet.
The genetic sequences of viral samples hold crucial clues about how SARS-CoV-2 shifted to our species from another animal, most likely a bat. Most precious of all are sequences from early in the pandemic because they take scientists closer to the original spillover event.
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COVID-19 database was edited in Wuhan
28th June 2021, 10:01
COVID-19 database was edited in Wuhan 
