‘Absolutely Reckless’: NIH Allows EcoHealth Alliance to Resume Coronavirus Research

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Brenda Baletti the NIH reinstated the grant, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week reinstated a controversial federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study the risk of bat coronavirus spillover. … In 2014, EcoHealth received $3.7 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to study the risk of bat coronavirus emergence and the potential for […]

Nuclear Translocation of Spike mRNA and Protein is a Novel pathogenic Feature of SARS-CoV-2

Sarah Sattar et al. Nuclear translocation of spike mRNA and protein is a novel pathogenic feature of SARS-CoV-2. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes severe pathophysiology in vulnerable older populations and appears to be highly pathogenic and more transmissible than SARS-CoV or MERS-CoV [1, 2]. The spike (S) protein appears to be a […]

Why This New Virus Testing Makes No Sense

Robin Monotti Graziadei … If we were to have routinely tested everyone for spike proteins or other coronavirus target genes before 2020, we would have found them in approximately one third of what we call winter colds or flus if not higher. This is likely to be what is happening now: tests include gene targets […]