New York – A new twist could help shed light on the mystery of the origins of Covid. A researcher found thirteen Covid genetic sequences that had disappeared from a scientific archive in Google’s “digital cloud”. The discovery’s author, Jesse D. Bloom, posted the account of his work on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s bioRxiv science server. One consequence of this discovery confirms a suspicion: several varieties of the coronavirus were circulating in the city of Wuhan before December 2019.
There are 241 missing genetic sequences. So Bloom, who works at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has only recovered a small part of them from Google Cloud. His discovery, which has not yet been the subject of “peer review”, that is critical analysis by other scholars, has however aroused great interest among American scientists, some of whom underline its importance in a report by New York Times.
In itself, this surprise discovery does not confirm or deny any of the two prevailing tracks: that of the contamination that took place in the Street market wet of Wuhan, or that of an accident that took place inside the famous laboratory virus of the same city, as a result of which researchers would have been infected. But from the analysis of those 13 genetic sequences, perhaps it will be possible to derive additional elements. It also strengthens the impression of deliberate cover-up and misdirection, because the story of the 241 genetic sequences is puzzling.
They had been collected and cataloged by a Chinese medical team, including scientist Aisi Fu, of the Wuhan Renimin hospital. They were then archived in a computer database, the Sequence Read Archive, managed by the National Library of Medicine which belongs to the United States federal government. Then from there have disappeared. A part, however, had been “saved” in the memory of Google Cloud where Bloom has fished out.
Who and why made such precious data disappear from the American medical archive? One possibility is that it was the same Chinese scientist who put them there: the management rules of that archive in fact provide that he inserts data also has the right to remove them. This discovery is certainly destined to attract the attention of US intelligence, to which Joe Biden asked by the end of July for a new report on the origins of Covid.
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