Those Virus Sequences That Were Suddenly Deleted? They're Back

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A batch of early coronavirus data that went missing for a year has emerged from hiding.

In June, an American scientist discovered that more than 200 genetic sequences from COVID-19 patient samples isolated in China early in the pandemic had puzzlingly been removed from an online database. With some digital sleuthing, Jesse Bloom, a virus expert at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, managed to track down 13 of the sequences on Google Cloud.

When Bloom shared his experience in a report posted online, he wrote that it “seems likely that the sequences were deleted to obscure their existence.”

But now an odd explanation has emerged, stemming from an editorial oversight by a scientific journal. And the sequences have been uploaded into a different database, overseen by the Chinese government.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/those-virus-sequences-were-suddenly-141554859.html

Cur the conspiracy theorists.

[DURHAM D]

1. I have no idea what any of this means.

Also I would never use yahoo as a news source.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. The source is a New York Times article

[DURHAM D]

3. Thanks - did not notice that.

I still have no clue what it all means.

[paleotn]

4. NY Times article....

Yahoo is just an aggregator.