Andre Goffinet

Bats could have been (probably were, unproven) held in cages at WHCDC, captured by Tian Jun-Hua, or at WIV. Unlikely they could escape, but could infect handlers.

Together with a colleague in Paris, I am investigating the pangolin data. All I can say at this stage is that the pangolin as intermediate host is most probably wrong....

I would be glad to agree with you if we had serious evidence for the elusive intermediate host. To me, pangolins are now excluded, but there are other possibilities worth...

Let us avoid nastly feelings. All ideas are worth hearing and considering. I have been working with chinese colleagues, including going in their lab in Guangzhou, for more than 10...

This is the so-called furin site. Furin is a proteolytic enzyme that can cleave and thereby poise the spike protein when the virus is excreted by infected cells. The poised...

That analysis is extremely well done. It confirms what I found, namely that there seems to be only ONE pangolin sequence, of poor quality, that codes the same RBD as...

Impossible to prove, until we have sequences of different virus isolates. Apparently, the novel virus in Harbin is different than the strains used to infect domestic animals in the Harbin...

Thank you for your question. I read this some time ago and it is very well documented and accurate as far as I can tell (although the author has a...

There is also Hanton's razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (or "incompetence") . I am still naive enough to believe that nobody is engineering...

Sorry for the typo, it is Hanlon razor...