People really need to understand what this claim actually is. The HIV virus is NOT in SARS-COV2. None of the full sequences of any viral protein of HIV are. NONE of them. It does not cause HIV-type infection or AIDS. What is there is a sequence that's uncommon called a furin cleavage site. It facilitates the fusion of the HIV viral particle to the T-cell target. That's it.
Now, is that furin cleavage site unique to HIV? Nope. Is it possible that it found its way into the SARS-COV2 sequence via evolution? Yes, but it's not found in close relatives of the SARS virus family (SARS, MERS, etc). It looks like it had to have been added using laboratory techniques, which is why this particular sequence is commonly cited as evidence of the Lab Leak Theory of the origin of SARS-COV2.
To be clear again, SARS-COV2 does not have any HIV proteins in it. It does not target the immune system like HIV does. They're completely different viruses, and attempting to conflate them with language like you used is not accurate at all.
No. He is saying the VIRUS has HIV in it.
People really need to understand what this claim actually is. The HIV virus is NOT in SARS-COV2. None of the full sequences of any viral protein of HIV are. NONE of them. It does not cause HIV-type infection or AIDS. What is there is a sequence that's uncommon called a furin cleavage site. It facilitates the fusion of the HIV viral particle to the T-cell target. That's it.
Now, is that furin cleavage site unique to HIV? Nope. Is it possible that it found its way into the SARS-COV2 sequence via evolution? Yes, but it's not found in close relatives of the SARS virus family (SARS, MERS, etc). It looks like it had to have been added using laboratory techniques, which is why this particular sequence is commonly cited as evidence of the Lab Leak Theory of the origin of SARS-COV2.
To be clear again, SARS-COV2 does not have any HIV proteins in it. It does not target the immune system like HIV does. They're completely different viruses, and attempting to conflate them with language like you used is not accurate at all.