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Christian Drosten
The news was greeted with immediate endorsement by the corrupt Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom, the first non-medical doctor to head WHO.Since then, the Drosten-backed test for the virus, called a real-time or RT-PCR test, has spread via WHO worldwide as the most used test protocol to determine if a person might have COVID-19, the illness. Review report Corman-Drosten et al. Eurosurveillance 2020. This extensive review report has been officially submitted to Eurosurveillance editorial board on 27th November 2020 via their submission-portal, enclosed to this review report is a retraction request letter, signed by all the main & co-authors.
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Just uploaded the first #SARSCoV2 sequence imported from Italy to Germany on #Gisaid. First sequence from present Italian clusters AFAK. Outstanding team @ #charitevirology.
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Note that 3 SNPs (positions 241, 3037, 23403) are uniquely shared with Munich cluster virus. Virus also groups with Munich sequence in tree. This is not sufficient to claim a link between Munich and Italy.
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Why: viruses are still undersampled, common sources may exist, Italian virus has 5 more SNPs that are not shared with Munich sequence (10265, 14408, 28881,-2,-3; reference: EPI_ISL_40212).