Mojiang mineshaft study (Ge et al. 2016)
http://web.archive.org/web/20210617132453if_/http:/kjc.hncu.edu.cn/__local/9/FB/10/8FEFAABC43B7573F3215A424345_F6493F4D_1763B4.pdf1/ Yeah, just noticed that. It looks like the mineshaft study that yielded 4991 was motivated by actual deaths from pneumonia-like illness, rather than by the mere presence of antibodies in the neighbouring population. Later, they attributed the deaths to fungus. Of the viruses
https://twitter.com/luigi_warren/status/1259600008233377794Btw, they say RaTG13 was sequenced in 2018 but Ping Yu's master's thesis (supervised by Zhengli Shi and submitted in June 2019) still calls it Ra4991. Anyway, like w/ the bat cages, that SARS-CoV-2's closest known relative came along under an unref'ed alias is def. not relevant.
https://twitter.com/AntGDuarte/status/1405112630428250116COVID-19 first appeared in Chinese miners in 2012: scientists
https://nypost.com/2020/08/15/covid-19-first-appeared-in-chinese-miners-in-2012-scientists/Coronavirus Related to SARS-CoV-2 Found in Chinese Mine in 2013 Was Sent to Wuhan Lab
https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-related-sars-cov-2-found-chinese-mine-2013-was-sent-wuhan-lab-1515625Frontiers | Lethal Pneumonia Cases in Mojiang Miners (2012) and the Mineshaft Could Provide Important Clues to the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Public Health
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.581569/fullGe Xingyi, the first author of the Mojiang mineshaft study (Ge et al. 2016), was awarded a new NSFC project in 2019, titled "Genetic diversity and interspecies transmission mechanisms of coronaviruses."
https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1405520405511557125How it was the most important article in 2020 vs How we now know it should have been thanks to #DRASTIC
https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/1405161569781260290Image of document
https://twitter.com/JollyKJo/status/1404854819777482752/photo/1Image of document
https://twitter.com/JollyKJo/status/1404854976996777987/photo/1Revealed: Seven year coronavirus trail from mine deaths to a Wuhan lab | News | The Sunday Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/seven-year-covid-trail-revealed-l5vxt7jqpThe Latest Theory That May Answer the Origin of Covid-19 | by Shin Jie Yong | Aug, 2020 | Medium
https://medium.com/@shinjieyong/the-latest-theory-that-may-answer-the-origin-of-covid-19-d9efbe7072ae[Thread] Bat tissue collection and cell lines from the 3rd trip to Tongguan (TG) mine in Mojiang in Apr-2013
https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/1406437128507174914Пещера коронавирусов. Несколько шахтеров из КНР болели странной пневмонией еще в 2012 году - ТАСС
https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/11690835