COVID-19 lab leak investigation: Deleted data adds to origin mystery
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/06/24/covid-19-lab-leak-investigation-deleted-genetic-fingerprints-show-its-still-possible-dig-lab-leak-ev/7778194002/China deleted early coronavirus data that could help explain pandemic origins, researcher finds
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/china-deleted-early-coronavirus-data-could-help-explain-pandemic/Claim that Chinese team hid early SARS-CoV-2 sequences to stymie origin hunt sparks furor | Science | AAAS
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/claim-chinese-team-hid-early-sars-cov-2-sequences-stymie-origin-hunt-sparks-furorI am getting lots of questions if my pre-print about some #SARSCoV2 sequences that were removed from Sequence Read Archive tell us anything about lab accident versus natural zoonosis. I posted summary of pre-print below, but did not directly address this point explicitly (1/n)
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1408161515606138883I have posted an updated version of my pre-print describing #SARSCoV2 sequences from the early Wuhan epidemic that were deleted from the Sequence Read Archive. This revision should clarify some key questions people asked about the original version: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v2 (1/n)
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1409945528612184065Important updates on @jbloom_lab preprint including the email exchange between NCBI and the authors who asked for their data on early Covid-19 cases in Wuhan to be removed from the database.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1409982522105241606In a new study, I identify and recover a deleted set of #SARSCoV2 sequences that provide additional information about viruses from the early Wuhan outbreak: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1 (1/n)
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407445604029009923Leading US Scientist Finds China Scrubbed Early COVID Data That Could Help Explain Origins | ZeroHedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/leading-us-scientist-finds-china-scrubbed-early-covid-data-could-help-explain-originsRecovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic | bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1Scientist Finds Early Coronavirus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/science/coronavirus-sequences.htmlScientist Uncovers Secretly Deleted Coronavirus Sequence - MEDizzy Journal
https://journal.medizzy.com/scientist-uncovers-secretly-deleted-coronavirus-sequence/Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted? They’re Back - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/science/coronavirus-sequences-lab-leak.html