"Wuhan's 'Bat Lady' Warns Of Coming Covid-19 Mutants"
From the South China Morning Post via ZeroHedge:
Of all the people on the planet who should probably take a pass on weighing in over the future of Covid-19, the woman suspected of either creating it and/or releasing it is probably at the top of the list.
Yet, that's what just happened.
According to Chinese state media cited by the South China Morning Post,
top CCP virologist Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology -
also known as "Bat Lady" - says the virus will continue to mutate, and
we must prepare to coexist with it.
"As the number of infected cases has just become too big, this allowed the novel coronavirus more opportunities to mutate and select. New variants will continue to emerge," said Shi, whose lab was working with a US-Funded nonprofit to make bat coronaviruses more infectious to humans.
Aside
from the obvious value in having 'Wuhan's Bat Lady™' opine on emerging
strains of the virus she's an expert in - note that she doesn't discuss how much more or less deadly new strains could be.
For
example, there's no evidence that the Delta strain - while much more
virulent than the original Alpha strain of Covid-19, is any deadlier.
"There's no evidence that it's more deadly," said Dr. Larry Corey, who is coordinating all of the COVID-19 vaccine research in the U.S (via King5). "There
is evidence that it's more infectious and more infectious to others,
i.e., more transmissible. But [is it] actually more severe? There's
really not good hard evidence of that."
"Becoming more transmissible and less lethal are absolutely what’s best for the pathogen,"
said Troy Day, a professor of mathematics and biology at Queen's
University in Canada, who has studied how infectious diseases -
including coronaviruses - evolve (via AP)....
Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance were the cutout through which Dr. Fauci sent funds to Wuhan while maintaining a semblance of implausible deniability: Senator I never gave money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Daszak did, passing on the funding we gave him for this purpose)
