US intelligence agencies remain divided on the origin of COVID, but at this point we’re all aware that, at a minimum, there’s a real possibility the virus that killed millions around the world escaped from a Wuhan lab.
China has of course denied that possibility but two US epidemiologists have written an opinion piece today warning that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is still involved in potentially dangerous research with bat coronaviruses. In fact, the lab has discovered a new virus which it says could infect humans and could be even more deadly than COVID-19. It’s research was just published in the Journal Cell.
In a series of experiments, the scientists show that this virus, HKU5-CoV-2, can efficiently infect cells of humans and a wide range of other animal cells. The findings raise the possibility that humans and other animals could be infected by…
