A study conducted by three German scientists has revealed evidence suggesting a laboratory origin for the Coronavirus, indicating that 99.9% of the virus was manufactured and produced in a lab. Valentin Protiel, one of the researchers who earned his PhD in immunology in 2022, stated in an interview with German television channel "n-tv" that "our results show that this virus is 99.9% synthetic and may be a manipulated version of a natural virus." He pointed out that the Coronavirus is a genetically engineered virus.
Protiel explained that the methods used to create the Coronavirus are also employed in a very similar manner by specialized virology labs to produce synthetic viruses. He mentioned that he uses these methods in his daily work, aiming to develop "completely harmless" protein drugs to treat autoimmune diseases.
According to the three German scientists, they found a kind of "fingerprint" in the genome of "Sars-CoV-2." Protiel clarified that this pattern consistently appears in the virus's genome, noting that laboratories modifying genetic viruses like "Sars-CoV-2" first collect genetic material from individual building blocks of DNA, leaving distinctive patterns near the intersections of these "building blocks."
Protiel and his colleagues compared the genomes of known synthetic viruses and natural viruses. He explained that, in natural viruses, the recognition sites are distributed completely randomly, whereas in synthetic sites, they always appear in a specific pattern, which is also present in the "Sars-CoV-2" virus, but not in similar viruses.