Zero Hedge has an update https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-bioweapon  Update (1040ET): Science moves fast during an outbreak like this, and Dr. Feigl-Ding has issued a few tweets clarifying and correcting some of the information cited in the threads we included below.  Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing Replying to @DrEricDing   QUICK FOLLOWUP: One researcher @trvrb did a BLAST search and did find the insertions existing in other related viruses. Let’s wait and see for more confirming / refuting studies to be published.   https://  twitter.com/trvrb/status/1  223337991168380928?s=21   …   https://  twitter.com/trvrb/status/1  223337991168380928   …  Trevor Bedford  @trvrb  These short inserts do indeed exist in #nCoV2019 relative to its closest sequenced relative (BetaCoV/bat/Yunnan/RaTG13/2013, seen here https://nextstrain.org/groups/blab/sars-like-cov …). However, a simple BLAST of such short sequences shows match to a huge variety of organisms. No reason to conclude HIV.  https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprin t/status/1223245639296978951  … 505 1:49 PM - Jan 31, 2020