HOW DID THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT KNOW THAT TAKING HIV DRUGS WOULD BE EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS BEFORE THIS PAPER WAS PUBLISHED?
Sunday, January 26
(Reuters) - China is testing an HIV drug as a treatment for symptoms of the new coronavirus that is rapidly spreading, said drugmaker AbbVie Inc on Sunday.
China health authorities requested the drug to help with the governments efforts to address the crisis, according to Adelle Infante, a spokeswoman for North Chicago, Illinois-based AbbVie.
Thursday, January 30
“Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1
I forgot that they were testing an HIV drug for this new virus. Good job linking the two! This paper is by Indian authors at IIT and University of Delhi, not the typical Chinese authors we’ve seen in the Lancet papers. That is certainly suspicious.
Good job!
Exactly!