SEATTLE, Dec. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Physician-Scientist
Steven Quay, MD, PhD has published
an e-print on his research into a new coronavirus, named BANAL-236,
reported by the Institut Pasteur in September 2021. At the time, BANAL-236 was the
first bat coronavirus with high homology to SARS-CoV-2 that could
directly infect human cells using the same receptor that SARS-CoV-2
uses. The new research reports that BANAL-236 has evolved the
ability to infect human cells by an unknown mechanism that violates
over 40 years of coronavirus research. The COVID-19 e-print is
available here and has also been submitted to Nature.
"When I read the paper from the Institut Pasteur and looked at
the virus, I immediately assumed there was an error in either the
way the sequence was assembled or a mix up in the lab with another
virus to explain the infectivity," Quay said. "I contacted the
Institut Pasteur with my findings and was deeply disturbed to learn
that there was not, in fact, some simple mistake had occurred to
explain things. I now knew we were in uncharted waters with a virus
that is missing eight key elements that have been shown, over 40
years of research, to be required for growth."
"To encourage an international effort to understand how this
virus can be infective, I have sent my findings to both Dr.
Anthony Fauci of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and to Dr.
Tedros Adhanom of the World Health
Organization," continued Dr. Quay. "Until we understand how a virus
with the genome sequence features of BANAL-236 can be infective, we
are in the dark as to how transmissible this virus would be in
humans and whether any of the current therapeutic interventions
will be effective."
About Steven Quay, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Dr. Steven Quay has 360+
published contributions to medicine and has been cited over 10,000
times, placing him in the top 1% of scientists worldwide. He holds
87 US patents and has invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals
which have helped over 80 million people. He is the author of the
best-selling book on surviving the pandemic, Stay Safe: A
Physician's Guide to Survive Coronavirus. He is the CEO of Atossa
Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage
biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for
oncology and infectious diseases.
He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow
in the Chemistry Department at MIT with
Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a
resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on
the faculty of Stanford University
School of Medicine. A TEDx talk he delivered on breast cancer
prevention has been viewed over 220,000 times. His scientific
manuscript entitled, "A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a
reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but
instead is laboratory derived," has been viewed over 194,000-times.
For more information, visit www.DrQuay.com
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