Chinese examine which claimed Covid originated in India withdrawn
Mangalore Today News Network
New Delhi, Dec 15, 2020: A examine that claimed the Indian subcontinent is perhaps the place the place the earliest human-to-human novel coronavirus transmission occurred was withdrawn from the preprint platform of the medical journal The Lancet, Global Times reported lately.
Global Times mentioned the examine was first posted on SSRN.com, the preprint platform of the medical journal The Lancet, on November 17, however the article was withdrawn.
A workers from the Institute of Neuroscience underneath the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) additionally confirmed with the Global Times that the examine was withdrawn from the platform.
The examine was carried out by researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience underneath the CAS, the Shanghai-based Fudan University and the University of Texas in Houston.
The pre-print examine, titled the “Early Cryptic Transmission and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in Human Hosts,” instructed that the Indian subcontinent is perhaps the place the place the earliest human-to-human novel coronavirus transmission occurred, three or 4 months previous to the outbreak in Wuhan.
Global Times mentioned withdrawing a examine from the SSRN.Com isn’t any shock. “If the researchers or researching institute found their studies may have lacked data, or are not solid or deliberate enough to draw a conclusion, they would consider withdrawing their study, a Beijing-based public well being knowledgeable advised the Global Times on situation of anonymity,” mentioned the report in Global Times.
He mentioned “the withdrawal of this study on the virus origin shows that tracking the virus origin around the world is a complicated scientific question, which is not an easy task, and is far from reaching a conclusion without international collaboration.”
As the paper was nonetheless a pre-print model that has but to undergo the peer assessment course of, the withdrawal may imply that the outcomes of the examine may have additional verification, specialists had mentioned.
“More evidence suggests the early existence of the virus in the world before human beings became aware of it, and it points to multiple sources,” he added.
Global Times mentioned a examine by the National Cancer Institute of Milan discovered the novel coronavirus in blood samples collected in October 2019, and analysis led by the University of Barcelona confirmed the presence of the virus in samples of sewage in Barcelona in March 2019.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal additionally quoted a authorities examine that mentioned COVID-19 was seemingly within the US in mid-December, a couple of month earlier than the nation reported its first case, and weeks earlier than China reported its first case.
Francois balloux, Director, UCL Genetics Institute and Professor of Computational Systems Biology at University College of London, described the paper by Chinese researchers as ‘gibberish’. “A piece of gibberish nonsense arguing #SARSCoV2 originated in India, submitted to the Lancet. I can only hope that the process of ‘peer review’ will weed this one out promptly.”