SARS-CoV-2’s structure is theoretically possible through natural evolution.In today’s post, I want to think more about what experts in viral evolution actually mean when they say that all of SARS-CoV-2’s features…Mar 13, 2023Mar 13, 2023
Covid-19 origins: Did US intelligence reject the Huanan Market research papers?Authors of two 2022 Huanan Market research papers claimed they’d solved the mystery of Covid-19’s origins and proved that the pandemic…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Risk of outbreak from Wuhan’s labs is unknowable, and that’s a problem in the search for Covid-19’s…Three years after the Covid-19 pandemic began and the Chinese authorities have failed to investigate the pandemic’s origins openly and…Jan 24, 2023Jan 24, 2023
The structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may never provide further clues about the origins of Covid-19The structure of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been scrutinized since the earliest days of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Some of that scrutiny…Jan 24, 2023Jan 24, 2023
Why I’m still on the fence in the Covid-19 origins debateWe know it was natural spillover or lab leak, but how do we go about comparing the likelihoods of two extremely unlikely events?Apr 7, 2022Apr 7, 2022
Covid-19 origins: Weighing the oddsOver the past 800 years, just four coronavirus pandemics are known to have emerged. Then the fifth broke out in Wuhan. What were the…Aug 22, 2021Aug 22, 2021
Covid-19 origins: Weighing the oddsBefore SARS-CoV-2, there were just four human coronaviruses circulating. Then the fifth emerged in Wuhan. What were the chances?May 25, 2021May 25, 2021
