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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for February 19, 2020
Good point. Thanks for the reply!
In addition to malice, there's also speculation that this most recent pathogen resulted from carelessness or incompetence at a biomed research facility near Wuhan. Again, impossible to prove or disprove at the moment, so I'm not drawing any conclusions, but it does seem plausible.
I have another article on a different topic that involves China in tomorrow's post. I don't go looking for articles about China, but I was just thinking this morning that it's surprising to realize how often China comes up in this series. In STEM, it seems that all roads lead to China.
In regards to an 'own goal' by China on the Wuhan epidemic, I have read several papers that all have found animal trials of SARS vaccines are disastrous. The vaccines for virii with the SARS spike protein all cause deadly pneumonias in subjects when the subjects are challenged with the infection.
China nonetheless human trialed SARS vaccines. Unbelievable, but they said they did themselves. If they vaccinated a lot of people in Hubei Province, it really explains well why China is suffering such terrible pathogenicity, but no other country in the world is.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4417-china-to-give-first-sars-vaccine-to-people/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-to-test-risky-sars-vaccine/
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/06/content_466753.htm