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    The whole story of the new crown virus controversy since the outbreak

    • Last Update: 2020-02-20
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    On February 19, seven Chinese experts, including Shi Zhengli, Gao Fu, Tan Wenjie and Jiang Shibo, published a communication article entitled a distinct name is needed for the new coronavirus online in the top medical journal The Lancet They jointly proposed that the new coronavirus needs a different name Experts said that "naming 2019 ncov as sars-cov-2 is misleading" It is suggested that the virus be renamed as hcov-19, human coronavirus 2019, to avoid misleading and confusion, and to help scientists communicate with the public better In fact, since novel coronavirus broke out, the discussion of the naming of the new crown virus has never stopped The novel coronavirus was temporarily named 2019-nCoV in January 31st On February 5, Professor Jiang Shibo of Fudan University published an article in the Journal of cell and molecular immunology, proposing to name the new coronavirus pars-cov; On February 8, at the press conference of the joint defense and control mechanism of the State Council, a spokesman said that the new coronavirus was named after the previous 2019 ncov term; On February 9, Professor Jiang Shibo, together with Professor Shi Zhengli, again sent a paper in virologica Sinica, proposing to name the new coronavirus tars CoV; Then, in February 11th International Committee on Taxonomy of viruses (CSG) published manuscripts on the preprint platform bioRxiv to identify new viruses belonging to existing species, that is, coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and rename 2019-nCoV to SARS-CoV-2 The naming was soon opposed by Chinese scientists, so at the beginning of the article, seven Chinese professors jointly wrote in the lancet, proposing to change the naming of the virus Chinese scientists have pointed out that the name sars-cov-2 may have an adverse impact on the social stability and economic development of countries where the virus is prevalent (even around the world) On the one hand, people will associate SARS with the new coronavirus, so they are afraid that travelers and investors may no longer visit the countries where the virus is prevalent On the other hand, people may mistakenly think that the new coronavirus, like SARS, will never reappear once the current outbreak is over, which may cause people to lose their vigilance Novel coronavirus was formally published in February 12th, and the official name of the new type of coronavirus on line Tucao is really confusing and even make complaints about A bit chaotic as early as in the year of Science The report points out that although the World Health Organization officially named the "disease" of new coronavirus infection as covid-19 on February 11, ending up the uncertainty of the name of the disease for up to six weeks, the who names the disease caused by new coronavirus (covid-19) and CSG The naming of the virus itself (sars-cov-2) is not consistent This seemingly contradictory naming even confused some virologists, and even caused some new "confusion" In fact, the naming of a new virus is not as simple as people think, there are many factors to consider Dr Tan Desai, director general of who, stressed in a press conference: "we must find names that are not related to geographical location, animals, individuals or people, easy to pronounce and related to the disease Proper naming is important to prevent the use of other names that may be inaccurate or defaced It also provides us with a standard naming format for any future coronavirus outbreaks " At present, it is still unknown how the virus will be named and whether it will be changed But since the outbreak, the global discussion about the new virus is far from limited to its name Previously, researchers from Delhi branch of Indian Institute of technology published an article titled uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-ncov spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and gag on the paper preprint platform biorxiv It is claimed that they have found four specific inserts in the S protein of the new coronavirus, and the amino acid residues in these four inserts are the same or similar to those in gp120 or gag, the replication protein of HIV-1 Later, Professor David Liu, a scientist at Harvard University and a craspr geneticist, directly tweeted, refuting that the research result is not reliable at all and is purely conspiracy theory However, just as "spreading rumors and breaking the leg", the results of this loose research have a wide range of influence Previously, a paper published by Professor Shi Zhengli as a co-author in nature medicine was over interpreted and became the target of "attack" According to the skeptics, the new coronavirus may come from the artificial editor Wuhan virus has mastered the technology of editing virus and editing animal to human virus On February 19, the official website of Wuhan Virus Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences published a letter to the staff and graduate students of the Institute, in which it said that "a number of rumors related to our institute spread on the Internet have caused great harm to the scientific researchers of our institute who stick to the front line of scientific research, and also seriously interfered with the task of emergency scientific research of our institute But looking back on the hard work over the past month, we have a clear conscience! " The dedicated work of Chinese researchers has been affirmed and supported by the peers in the world On February 18, a team led by Christian Anderson, a famous computational biologist and evolutionary biologist at Scripps Research Institute in California, USA, published an article at virological forum to refute the conspiracy theory of "synthetic" of new coronavirus On February 19, 27 scientists from 8 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain jointly published a statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting covid-19 online in the international famous medical journal The Lancet Novel coronavirus COVID-19 is not a conspiracy theory of natural origin, and is strongly supported by scientists in various countries It also supports China's efforts to fight COVID-19 epidemic research, public health and medical workers The statement pointed out that since the emergence of covid-19, China's scientific research, public health, and medical workers have made great efforts and efficient work They have rapidly identified pathogens, taken major measures to reduce the impact of the epidemic, and transparently shared relevant information and achievements with the global health community, all of which are commendable At the same time, the scientists who issued the statement also believed that the data sharing in the outbreak was rapid, open and transparent, which is now threatened by rumors such as speculation about the origin of the disease They strongly condemned novel coronavirus COVID-19 as not a conspiracy theory of natural origin Researchers from all over the world have analyzed the whole genome of the new coronavirus and published the results These results overwhelmingly prove that the coronavirus, like many other new pathogens, comes from wild animals They believe that conspiracy theory has no use but to create panic, rumors, prejudice and damage the work of the global common fight against the disease Scientists also invited a large number of scientific and technological workers from all over the world to join the statement (scientists support website: http://chng.it/sdptb9kf) and support scientific research, public health and medical workers on the front line in Wuhan and all over China to fight alongside them Origin, naming, conspiracy theory Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the debate brought by the new virus is far from the battlefield of epidemic prevention But as the statement in the lancet States, "We support the appeal of the director general of the World Health Organization to promote science by demonstration and solidarity, not by misrepresentation and conjecture We hope that all the scientific research and medical and health workers fighting on the front line of China will know that we stand with you in this fight against the virus "
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