PR Newswire
SEATTLE
,
July 15, 2021
/PRNewswire/ — An international team of scientists and data analysts, led by Physician-Scientist
Steven Quay
, MD, PhD, has published a paper entitled, “Science Not Speculation Should Inform the Investigation of the Origin of COVID-19,” in which they conclude: “Until new evidence is found, an investigation of the pathway for the origin of COVID-19 should proceed with the assumption that a laboratory-acquired infection or research-related accident is at least as likely, if not more likely, than a natural zoonotic transmission.”
The paper was submitted to the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight hearing, Principles for Outbreak Investigation: COVID-19 and Future Infectious Diseases,” held on
July 14, 2021
.
The preprint, available
here
, uses the WHO Report and other reliable data sources to conclude:
-
Coronavirus research at laboratories in
Wuhan, China
was conducted under biosafety levels (BSL-2 and BLS-3) that are, in general, insufficient for human pathogens. -
The location of a SARS-like coronavirus outbreak in
Wuhan
, the city with the leading SARS-like coronavirus research institute in the entire world, makes a laboratory research-related event a leading hypothesis. - Unlike with previous natural zoonotic epidemics, there was no evidence of pre-pandemic animal-to-human transmission and no evidence of an intermediate animal host.
- The virus was genetically pure at the beginning of the outbreak and the genetic signature of animal-to-human transmission, found in 50% or more of early patients in previous epidemics, is absent with COVID-19.
“A research-related accident involves a single transmission of a pure virus to one human and then human-to-human spread,” said Dr. Quay. “In a lab leak there will be no animal hosts found outside of the lab, no pre-epidemic human infections in stored blood samples at local hospitals, and the virus will have no background diversity in its genome. The investigation to date of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic has established these predicted results for a lab-related event as undisputed facts. Until new evidence is uncovered, future investigation should proceed with the lab leak as the leading hypothesis.”
About
Steven Quay
, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr.
Steven Quay
has 360+ published contributions to medicine and has been cited over 10,000 times, placing him in the top 1% of scientists worldwide. He holds 87 US patents and has invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals which have helped over 80 million people. He is the author of the best-selling book on surviving the pandemic, Stay Safe: A Physician’s Guide to Survive Coronavirus. He is the CEO of Atossa Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for oncology and infectious diseases.
He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The
University of Michigan
, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department at
MIT
with Nobel Laureate H.
Gobind Khorana
, a resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on the faculty of
Stanford University
School of Medicine. A TEDx talk he delivered on breast cancer prevention has been viewed over 220,000 times. His scientific manuscript entitled, ”
A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived
,” has been viewed over 115,000-time. For more information, visit
www.DrQuay.com
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