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Proof that bats really were involved.
https://vid8.poal.co/user/thestreetnaught/2Ag5vsJ
Proof that bats really were involved.
"Two years after the epidemic started, we still don't know for sure what the exact origin of the COVID-19 variant is," Dr. Maya Weinberg, lead author of the study, which was published in the August issue of iScience, said.
According to Weinberg, attributing the blame for the pandemic, which has killed more than 6.4 million people, to bats is a "false theory" that is "not based on sufficiently strong scientific evidence, and it causes unnecessary stress and confusion on a global scale."
Possession of antibodies to the new coronavirus from bats does not necessarily mean that the disease was transmitted to humans from them. This only shows that the animals were able to survive the disease and become resistant to it, Dr. Weinberg said. Bats have indicators of an immune system that allows them to cope relatively easily with a virus considered deadly to other mammals.
The researcher says her team examined documents on the origins of about 100 viruses, including Covid-19, SARS, and Ebola, and found that nearly half of the claims about bats were based, rather, on the frequency of antibody or PCR tests than actually isolate identical viruses. In addition, many of the reported discoveries are not convincing.
"As a general rule, bats are mistakenly perceived as the tanks of many infectious diseases," she added.
On the contrary, scientists "need to study in depth the immunological antivirals of bats and, consequently, obtain new and effective means of solving problems in the fight of humanity against infectious diseases, aging and cancer," said Dr. Weinberg.
"Two years after the epidemic started, we still don't know for sure what the exact origin of the COVID-19 variant is," Dr. Maya Weinberg, lead author of the study, which was published in the August issue of iScience, said.
According to Weinberg, attributing the blame for the pandemic, which has killed more than 6.4 million people, to bats is a "false theory" that is "not based on sufficiently strong scientific evidence, and it causes unnecessary stress and confusion on a global scale."
Possession of antibodies to the new coronavirus from bats does not necessarily mean that the disease was transmitted to humans from them. This only shows that the animals were able to survive the disease and become resistant to it, Dr. Weinberg said. Bats have indicators of an immune system that allows them to cope relatively easily with a virus considered deadly to other mammals.
The researcher says her team examined documents on the origins of about 100 viruses, including Covid-19, SARS, and Ebola, and found that nearly half of the claims about bats were based, rather, on the frequency of antibody or PCR tests than actually isolate identical viruses. In addition, many of the reported discoveries are not convincing.
"As a general rule, bats are mistakenly perceived as the tanks of many infectious diseases," she added.
On the contrary, scientists "need to study in depth the immunological antivirals of bats and, consequently, obtain new and effective means of solving problems in the fight of humanity against infectious diseases, aging and cancer," said Dr. Weinberg.
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