It went largely unnoticed and unreported on, but 2018 research published in the journal PLoS One reveals something major and previously unknown about Google's involvement in the creation of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).Researchers from Yale University, Metabiota Inc., EcoHealth Alliance, the
Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Washington Center for One Health Research – one of them is none other than Peter Daszak himself – wrote about another study out of China involving what sounds like gain-of-function research.
They explain how they looked at the transmission of pathogens "with pandemic potential in highly exposed human populations at the animal-human interface." They also conducted a risk factor and exposure survey along with a serology follow-up on the 1,312 individuals who were part of the study.
"The overall proportion of individuals seropositive to any of the tested wildlife pathogens was approximately 4.0%," the abstract reads. "However, persons employed as butchers demonstrated a seropositivity of 9.0% to at least one pathogen of interest."