Fauci-backed research team omitted key information from ANOTHER report linking ... trends now
A bombshell study heralded as 'the strongest evidence yet' that Covid emerged naturally omitted key information that undermined its findings, experts claim.
The report, published online Monday, found DNA from raccoon dogs in the same location at an infamous Wuhan wet market where genetic material from Sars-CoV-2 was clustered in 2019.
Because raccoon dogs are known harborers of Covid, the research team concluded the finding 'contributed to the large body of evidence supporting a natural origin.'
The paper was first leaked by The Atlantic last week with the headline: 'The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic.' What is not mentioned in the study's manuscript is that all of the DNA samples from raccoon dogs tested negative for Covid via PCR test.
Dr Steven Quay, a microbiologist in Seattle, Washington, who has spent the past two years investigating Covid's origin, said this showed a 'willingness to be untruthful'.
Researchers identified stalls in the southwest corner of the market where Covid is most prevalent. A large portion of Covid samples gathered from the area were from raccoon dogs, they determined
Racoon dogs made up more than 80 percent of Covid samples that researchers could identify a species for with 99 percent confidence or more
The omission of that caveat adds to growing concerns about the reliability of the report, whose main authors include scientists who shut down debate about the lab leak theory - which the FBI and Energy Department have said with varying degrees of confidence was likely the genesis of the pandemic.
Dr Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, was the lead author of a February 2020 paper some have said was designed to squash the theory that Covid may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). That paper, now infamous, was titled 'Proximal Origin'.
Emails revealed earlier this month showed that Dr Andersen was prompted by former White House doctor Anthony Fauci to publish the paper, despite privately expressing concern that the virus showed hallmarks of human engineering.
In the latest research, which is still pending peer review, researchers used data that was uploaded — and quickly taken down— to a database called the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID).
This is an international database of virus information accessible to experts across the world.
The data included swab samples taken from surfaces, floors and walls from stalls in of the Huanan Seafood Market in epicenter Wuhan in January 2020.
Dr Steven Quay (pictured) said that the paper is 'completely dishonest' in saying it was evidence for a natural spillover
The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) has kept this data under wraps since it was collected.
Now with it available, researchers were able to access and study the swab samples for the first time.
Their analysis found genetic material from raccoon dogs and Covid from the same southwest corner of the market.
Raccoon dogs act as intermediate hosts of the virus — meaning they catch pathogens from the wild and harbor it without falling ill themselves.
There is a risk they can spread viruses to humans — or any other animal they come into contact with.
The research team claims that Covid and the raccoon dog specimens being
