Australian Epidemiologist Gideon Meyerovitz-Katz (Meyeowitz-Katz) criticized the statements, allegedly proving the laboratory origin of the coronavirus SARS-COV-2. As a scientist writes in a column on Science Alert, the Dalglash and Sorens article allows actual errors and cannot be considered as a serious scientific publication.
According to the version of the Dalugley and Sorensen, one of the main “prints”, indicating the artificial origin of the virus, turned out to be a number of four positively charged amino acids, which is allegedly impossible in nature. However, it is known that, for example, 3996 human proteins have at least one plot, where four positively charged amino acids go in a row. According to the authors of the article, which has not yet been published in any of the serious scientific journals, the suspicious properties of the virus are proof that SARS-COV-2 was created in the laboratory.
As another argument of Dalgleysh and Sorensen, the fact that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducted by a series of experiments with coronaviruses. However, many scientists around the world are constantly studying coronaviruses, especially after the flashes of SARS-1 and MERS. In addition, in nature there are not yet known coronaviruses that can potentially become zoonoses, that is, learn how to move from animals on people.
As noted by many scientists, the version of what coronavirus, originally existed in the wilder, could be kept in the laboratory in which leakage occurred. There are evidence that make this version is unlikely, but not disproving it finally. For example, researchers working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not have antibodies to SARS-COV-2, which would most likely discovered in the event of a leak.
At the moment, SARS-COV-2 did not have any features that would indicate an artificial origin. All unusual amino acid and RNA sequences are characteristic of coronaviruses circulating in a wild environment.
Earlier it was reported that the British Professor Angus Dalgleysh (Angus Dalgleish) and Norwegian Dr. Birger Soresen (Birger Sørensen) found evidence of artificial origin of coronavirus. In their opinion, Chinese scientists have created COVID-19 in the laboratory in the Uhana, and then tried to check the traces with the help of reversible versions of the virus so that it looks like it happened naturally from bats.