⬆️「Despite its scale, the Lanzhou accident barely made a blip in global media coverage. That’s partly because of official suppression, as initial Chinese accounts depicted only a minor mishap and very few illnesses.」

And who could forget that when the *news* of first Covid19 cases came out of the "People's Republic" in early 2020 and there were worries about a global #pandemic, the CCP furiously denied everything and demanded that outbound flights were to continue without restrictions, or else...

Thanks CCP for also letting us foreigners experience the greatness of your never-elected governance/#dictatorship.

#CCP #PRC #china #covid19 #wuhanvirus
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⬆️ @arstechnica “But the genetic flaws don't appear to end with the misidentification of raccoon dog genetic material. According to the Nature study, the China CDC scientists also found traces of various animals that were extremely unlikely to be present in the market. That includes the highly protected, and generally large, giant panda (Ailuropoda), as well as bears (Ursus), chimpanzees (Pan), grey seals found in the North Atlantic (Halichoerus), and rodents from the Chilean Andes (Octodon). ( 👀 )

It's unclear why the Chinese scientists did not correct their analysis, but now that the metagenomic data is publicly available following the publication, outside researchers are keen to dig into it.”

#covid #covid19 #wuhan #wuhanvirus #CCP #china #pandadiplomacy

The Guardian: Scientist who stumbled upon Wuhan Covid data speaks out

tl;dr: 「A pre-print analysis of the same swabs, released by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) in February 2022 claimed they had included human DNA and coronavirus traces, but showed no evidence of the kinds of animals most likely to have been vectors for the virus.

Their findings supported arguments made by some Chinese officials that the Wuhan market was merely a site where the virus spread among humans, rather than the cradle where it made its first fateful leap from animals to people. But when Débarre and her colleagues analysed the same data, they received another result. “It was the Latin name for raccoon dog, multiple times,” she says. “It was one of the greatest emotions of my life.”

Raccoon dogs, omnivorous east Asian cousins of the fox, are highly susceptible to coronavirus infections and shed the virus in sufficient quantities to infect animals and humans around them. In other words: a suspect was confirmed to have been present at the scene.」

「To the storm of questions swirling around Covid-19’s origins, this latest episode has added more. Why were the results of the swabs taken in the early months of Covid-19 withheld from the scientific community for more than three years? Why did the first version of the Chinese study claim not to have found any raccoon dog DNA? And why were the genetic sequences quietly uploaded to Gisaid – left online long enough to be discovered – and then removed from public view?」

relinking article for convenience:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/28/being-truthful-is-essential-scientist-who-stumbled-upon-wuhan-covid-data-speaks-out

#TheGuardian #covid #covid19 #wuhan #wuhanvirus #CCP #PRC #china #authoritarianism #dictatorship #onlinethreats
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Covid-19 origins: New studies agree that animals sold at #Wuhan market are most likely what started #pandemic - CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/wuhan-market-covid-19/index.html

The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, was most likely the epicenter for the #coronavirus.

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Strains get geo-tags, why not the virus itself?

#WuhanVirus 💯