Bats? Shrews?
Good brief article on lab origins of Covid
Hello to the naysayers. Some of us keep believing that this Covid virus was made in a lab. The main lab rats are wearing white coats - not in cages. In this interest, the chinese bats from a mine cannot fill the bill. Our T cell immune system (thymic origin) are amazing. They do their immune duties well and have long memories - meaning a corona virus “cold” you had 30 yrs ago might confer complete immunity today.
Just think - as residents we were focused on anatomy, physiology, and learning to tie knots in deep body cavities. Dr DeBakey sewed the first aortic graft on his wife’s sewing machine! Then eventually we moved away from “big surgery” to less invasive and here we are with data like this. After doing >3000 sternotomies to do heart surgery I was looking at an amazing organ all this time - the thymus! Here is what we have to keep up with today to be able to answer patient questions about these diseases.