The origin of COVID-19 has been a fundamental question: Was it from nature or a lab? In this post, I’ll be able to shed light on this question. A few days ago, Florence Debarre, a French evolutionary biologist, identified previously undisclosed genetic data from the Wuhan Seafood Market. Her discovery was shared immediately with Kristen Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at Scripps Research, who co-published one of the first research papers on the origin of COVID-19 in 2020. Together they believe these new findings support a natural source of the virus rather than from a lab.
The first case of COVID-19 happened somewhere in China in the Fall of 2019. Covid came calling at a friend’s home sometime before October 27, 2022. This was the first time that they were infected with COVID-19. Their symptoms have been mild, including slight cough. I’ll track their progress and update this post with new data.
COVID-19 is not behind us. Omicron is a reminder that COVID-19 is not only spreading faster than Delta, but that this virus is another mutation as it continues to infect populations around the world. More than 300,000 people a day in the US are getting infected. In fact, the Omicron variant has overtaken Delta in the number of infections each day in most of the world.
The Delta variant is exploding across the United States. Ignorance and callowness is spreading the virus. In Georgia, the situation is serious in all but two counties. What should schools do given what we know?
The anti-science attack leveled at Dr. Anthony Fauci by Representative Jim Jordon of Ohio is part of a Republican attack on science that has gone on for decades. Today it raged in the House of Representatives. The chair of the Committee, Maxine Waters (D-CA) had to intervene to tell Jordon to “shut your mouth.”
