ChiCom Flu Bat Fable Dies in Sunlight

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Excerpt from a report in Nature that they strategically held onto for 8 months:

Initial media coverage suggesting that COVID-19 may have spilled-over via pangolins has been refuted.

Here we present a unique and original dataset recording wild animal sales across Wuhan City’s animal markets between May 2017 and November 2019.

Across all 17 shops, vendors reported total sales of 36,295 individuals, belonging to 38 terrestrial wild animal species, averaging 1170.81 individuals per month (Standard deviation (SD) = 445.01, n = 31; Table 1). Including species sold by weight inflated this total to 47,381 individuals. Notably, no pangolin or bat species were among these animals for sale.

Notably, vendors freely disclosed a variety of protected species on sale illegally in their shops, therefore they would not benefit from specifically concealing pangolin trade or the trade in any particular species, and so we are confident this list is complete.

 
Excerpt from a report in Nature that they strategically held onto for 8 months:

Initial media coverage suggesting that COVID-19 may have spilled-over via pangolins has been refuted.

Here we present a unique and original dataset recording wild animal sales across Wuhan City’s animal markets between May 2017 and November 2019.

Across all 17 shops, vendors reported total sales of 36,295 individuals, belonging to 38 terrestrial wild animal species, averaging 1170.81 individuals per month (Standard deviation (SD) = 445.01, n = 31; Table 1). Including species sold by weight inflated this total to 47,381 individuals. Notably, no pangolin or bat species were among these animals for sale.

Notably, vendors freely disclosed a variety of protected species on sale illegally in their shops, therefore they would not benefit from specifically concealing pangolin trade or the trade in any particular species, and so we are confident this list is complete.

I really appreciate you saying that....Kisses

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Most have known for months that there were no bats for sale at the seafood market, and Nature published the article from La Jolla that refutes the lab-escape conspiracy. Also from La Jolla, one of the authors, Foley, published the pangolin refutation on 27 Feb 2020. On 28 Feb 2020, we posted it to the now-closed snake meat thread, post #543.
Evolutionary History, Potential Intermediate Animal Host, and Cross-Species Analysis of SARS-CoV-2
’....Interestingly, the coronavirus carried by pangolins did not have the RRAR motif (furin cleavage). Therefore, we conclude that the human SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is responsible for the recent outbreak of COVID-19, did not come directly from pangolins.’
 

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