So you how to explain Chinese scientist saying it has HIV/AIDS components and the part about it being treated with HIV/AIDS meds. Ok.
Ok. Indian scientist needed more scientific scrutiny, but now Chinese scientists are supporting the Indians' "voluntary retracted" original conclusion.
I agree with you it's important to have scientific analysis that is checked and re-checked, so proper information is getting out there.
That's why we having this open dialogue and I hope it stays this way.
I already replied to the medication thing - antiretrovirals can be very broad spectrum, just like antibiotics, and using HIV meds to treat completely unrelated viruses is nothing new.
So far as the Chinese quote, it was from a DOCTOR, not a scientist, as was about the effect of the virus on the body, not the composition of the virus.
The influence of COVID-19 on the human body is like a combination of SARS and AIDS as it damages both the lungs and immune systems,” Peng Zhiyong, director of the intensive care unit of the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, told the Global Times.
Dr Peng was commenting on the paper by Liu Liang, a forensic specialist from the Tongji Medical College at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, whose team had conducted nine autopsies of coronavirus patients as of February 24.
“The autopsy results Liu shared inspired me a lot. Based on the results, I think the most important thing now is to take measures at an early stage of the disease to protect patients’ lungs from irreversible fibrosis,” Dr Peng told the outlet.
He's merely speaking to the fact that the virus hurts both your respiratory and immune systems, he's not talking about the composition of the virus and obviously COVID-19 doesn't affect your immune systems to remotely the degree that HIV does as most people are recovering within a few weeks on their own while HIV just destroys your entire immune system such that you never recover. He was being a bit sensational in his wording, but it bears repeating that he's a doctor who runs a hospital, not a scientist looking at the makeup of the virus.