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Researchers Pinpointed Covid-19's Origin to Within a Few Metres
| Even in 2014, Professor Holmes believed the market could become a site of virus transmission between animals and humans. The monitoring that Professor Holmes suggested never took place but, in the early days of COVID-19, he was still convinced that a market like the one in Wuhan was the logical origin of the virus.
| >"They are the kind of engine room of [this sort] of disease emergence ... because what you're doing is you're putting humans and wildlife in close proximity to each other," he said.
Aside from the geographic clustering, he also points to the fact that two different strands emerged almost simultaneously in humans, something that is much more likely if the virus had already been mutating in animals.
>"They're sufficiently far apart that they were probably independent jumps.
| >"It means there was a pool of infected animals in the market and it's mutated amongst them before it jumped to humans."
All of this has led Professor Holmes to conclude that the question of how COVID-19 emerged is settled.
Detailed mapping of where samples were detected inside the Huanan seafood wholesale market allowed Professor Holmes and his colleagues to even pinpoint to a few square metres where COVID-19 was likely to have jumped between humans and animals.
| >"It's extraordinary," he said. "And I took a photo in 2014 of one of the stalls that was the most positively tested in the whole market."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-13/profile-professor-eddie-holmes-virus-hunter-covid-19/101324738
| Covid is a russian bio weapon, right?
| Either way, it's kinda cool that you can pin-point the origin of a virus down to a few square meters like this. It's just so sad that no one listens to the experts until shit starts to break, so to speak. Virologists ha been trying to warn us for years that something like this could/would happen.
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| Award winning virologist Eddie Holmes played a key role in mapping the evolution of COVID-19 and was also the first person to release the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 to the world.
But interestingly, this Australian virologist also visited the Wuhan market in 2014, and recognised the risk of virus transmission between animals and humans and suggested taking some samples.