Yes, you are right to be skeptical. It is an extraordinary claim that goes against all of what we know from covid-19 genome sequence studies so far. The burden

Yes, you are right to be skeptical. It is an extraordinary claim that goes against all of what we know from covid-19 genome sequence studies so far. The burden of proof is very high for follow up evidence, otherwise it is just a hypothesis. Here is some commentary about this from the director at UCL Genetics Institute - https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1328058398517190656 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13280583985171906... if anyone is interested in following along