SARS CoV 2
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Furin cleavage site proves SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a lab
“The fear and cleavage site makes it clear that this was a lab leak. That's not a naturally occurring virus. The fear and cleavage sites were engineered.”
Friedberg: COVID transmission rates among vaccinated people rose as virus mutated
“As this virus evolved and mutated, it became pretty evident pretty fast that the rate of Transmission in vaccinated people continue to go up.”
Friedberg: SARS-CoV-2 will remain endemic forever and cycle through variants
“SARS-CoV- two is going to be here forever, and it is going to cycle through variants.”
Friedberg predicts a surge in COVID variants and engineered bioweapons
“We are going to have a lot more of these kind of emerging variants over the next couple of years with SARS-CoV-T, but also with potentially engineered bugs that we need to be careful about.”
Friedberg: SARS-CoV-2 estimated transmission rate is 2.5 versus flu's 1.5
“The current statistical rate that's estimated for this virus is 2.5 infections per person infected and flew just by kind of comparison is 1.5.”
Srinivasan: Naming COVID-19 abstractly rather than 'Wuhan flu' avoids harmful regional stigma
“Didn't want to stigmatize a region by calling it like the Wuhan flu or the China flu. Like Reddit has a community called the China flu. That's not helpful for lots of reasons you know, like That area is hard enough hit. You don't want to hit it like, you know,…”
CDC's early COVID-19 PCR test failed due to bugs across three loci
“The actual CDC test looks at this, not just for one locus, but for three loci, meaning three different spots on the virus's genome. One of those spots, I believe, is for all coronavirus, and two loci are specific to this SARS-CoV-CoV-II virus, the virus that c…”
Srinivasan: Diagnostic PCR and sequencing are standard tech, contagion is main testing hurdle
“People have been doing RT-PCR, and they've been doing sequencing on aluminum machines for basically a decade plus at this point. The main difficulty here is that the SARS-CoV-I virus is very contagious and dangerous, so you need to be even more careful with sa…”
Asymptomatic spread removes evolutionary pressure for COVID-19 to become less lethal
“Now, sometimes, often, viruses evolve to be less lethal and more contagious because, you know, like, if you, if it's like Ebola and somebody dies in a pool of blood, then, you know, they don't spread it very far, right?
The Ebola virus actually sort of, it ki…”