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Opening Statement of Steven Quay, MD, PhD 18 Jun 2024 "Origins of COVID-19: An Examination of Available Evidence" Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Here is my submitted testimony for the Senate hearing today.
I approach the question of the origin with six 'Russian nesting dolls' of evidence, all supporting a lab-acquired infection.
Fourteen sets of data document the outbreak began months before the market cases.
Eight observations from the market data are not consistent with a spillover.
A timeline of events at the WIV over six months is consistent with a lab reacting to a biosafety breech.
Data from a zoonosis with respect to animals, people, and viruses have never been seen with a spillover.
Eight genome features consistent with a synthetic virus. The probability one virus from nature has all of these features is one in 1.2 billion. Nine features described in the 2018 DEFUSE grant are found in SARS2.
The D614 unstable ancestor virus first seen in humans cannot be passaged in any animal without the D614G stabilization. This means the FCS was added last and infected a lab worker almost immediately and before animal passaging. Otherwise the first human cases would be D614G.
The next potential lab leak? The Nipah virus, 75% lethal.
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