Trump Claims Evidence Virus Began In Chinese Lab

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6. i read something about this weeks ago.......

basically some virologists studied the virus and said it was too dissimilar from existing known viruses to be artificial. because if you were going to engineer a virus you would do it using an existing virus as a template to tweak. sort of like is someone asked you to build a 1000 horsepower auto engine you aren't going try to invent a completely new technology, you are going to start with an existing engine design and try to tweak it up to what you need.

https://www.biospace.com/article/stop-the-conspiracy-theories-novel-coronavirus-has-natural-origin/

from the article:

Additional evidence of natural evolution was data on the virus’s overall molecular structure. Typically, if a researcher was engineering a new coronavirus as a pathogen or biological warfare agent, they build it on the backbone of a virus that is already identified as causing disease. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, their research showed that the SARS-CoV-2 backbone was quite different from known coronaviruses and more closely resembled viruses found in bats and pangolins.