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Genetic sequence of coronavirus was submitted to US database two weeks before China's official disclosure, documents show
I seem to remember someone posting this two or three years ago on this site; i.e., that it was filed with the Government beforehand. But, I don't have the time to go look for it at the moment.
Funny how 'we' knew, but the U.S. Government and virologists didn't.
One of those things that makes you go... huh?
The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was submitted to a National Institutes of Health database two weeks before its release by the Chinese government, according to documents that were shared with US lawmakers and released Wednesday.
The sequence doesn't indicate the origin of the coronavirus but undermines the Chinese government?s claims about its knowledge of the information, one expert told CNN - and could have cost critical weeks in the development of a vaccine against the virus...
Dr. Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, wrote Wednesday in an analysis of Ren?s submission that it "clearly falsifies the Chinese government's claim that the causative agent of the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak still had not been identified near the end of the first week of January 2020."
The earlier submission "would have provided adequate information to initiate vaccine production in late 2019 if it had been made public," he said, noting that drugmaker Moderna "used the spike sequence to design its COVID-19 vaccine" within two days of the January 12 release.
However, he said, the genetic sequence "is unlikely to represent the first virus that infected humans" and "does not provide any new insights into the origin or early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan."...
"In late 2019, nobody knew that a pandemic would later ensue," he wrote in an email. "This is a really critical part that most people seem to forget - nobody knew back then that a never-before-seen coronavirus only distantly related to SARS-CoV-1 was causing 'mysterious' illnesses in patients associated with a wet market in the middle of Wuhan, which would later spark a devastating pandemic.
"Should the sequence have been released at the time and [marked] as preliminary data? Sure, that would have been great, and is a good example of where we could hope to do better in the future," he said. "Whoever reviewed the sequence at NCBI over the holiday period in 2019 would have no way of connecting this sequence to a 'mysterious' illness in Wuhan - because it was yet to be reported."
The sequence doesn't indicate the origin of the coronavirus but undermines the Chinese government?s claims about its knowledge of the information, one expert told CNN - and could have cost critical weeks in the development of a vaccine against the virus...
Dr. Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, wrote Wednesday in an analysis of Ren?s submission that it "clearly falsifies the Chinese government's claim that the causative agent of the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak still had not been identified near the end of the first week of January 2020."
The earlier submission "would have provided adequate information to initiate vaccine production in late 2019 if it had been made public," he said, noting that drugmaker Moderna "used the spike sequence to design its COVID-19 vaccine" within two days of the January 12 release.
However, he said, the genetic sequence "is unlikely to represent the first virus that infected humans" and "does not provide any new insights into the origin or early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan."...
"In late 2019, nobody knew that a pandemic would later ensue," he wrote in an email. "This is a really critical part that most people seem to forget - nobody knew back then that a never-before-seen coronavirus only distantly related to SARS-CoV-1 was causing 'mysterious' illnesses in patients associated with a wet market in the middle of Wuhan, which would later spark a devastating pandemic.
"Should the sequence have been released at the time and [marked] as preliminary data? Sure, that would have been great, and is a good example of where we could hope to do better in the future," he said. "Whoever reviewed the sequence at NCBI over the holiday period in 2019 would have no way of connecting this sequence to a 'mysterious' illness in Wuhan - because it was yet to be reported."
Funny how 'we' knew, but the U.S. Government and virologists didn't.
One of those things that makes you go... huh?
Even in the halls of Congress. 
I mean, it was even reported on Calguns and none of us posted to that thread.
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