Peter Daszak - “We found other coronaviruses in bats – a whole host of them. Some of them looked very similar to SARS. So we sequenced the spike proteins, the protein that attaches to cells. Then we – well, I didn’t do this work – MY COLLEAGUES IN CHINA DID THE WORK, you create pseudo-particles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, sift and bind to human cells… And each step of this, you move closer and closer to THIS VIRUS COULD REALLY BECOME PATHOGENIC IN PEOPLE.”
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Peter Daszak - “We found other coronaviruses in bats – a whole host of them. Some of them looked very similar to SARS. So we sequenced the spike proteins, the protein that attaches to cells. Then we – well, I didn’t do this work – MY COLLEAGUES IN CHINA DID THE WORK, you create pseudo-particles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, sift and bind to human cells… And each step of this, you move closer and closer to THIS VIRUS COULD REALLY BECOME PATHOGENIC IN PEOPLE.”