COVID-19 Paper: RNA is Assumed to be from a "Virus"

In this video I go over the main assumption in the main paper on COVID-19 "virus" isolation, and that is the RNA extracted from patient and cell culture supernatants is assumed to be "viral". It took me a long time before realizing this since the paper does not state this directly. Instead, I had to ask ChatGPT to clarify a paragraph from the paper, as well as double-checking with the mainstream science literature. And indeed this is a key assumption made in virology in general. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is supposedly the genetic makeup of the new SARS-CoV 2 "virus" which supposedly causes "COVID", so when a "viral infection" is suspected, then typically the assumption is that RNA found is from this "virus".

ChatGPT also outlines several methods to "confirm" this assumption, such as using PCR to detect specific RNA sequences, comparing the sequences with known "viral sequences", and "immunological assays". These assays use "antibodies" (or immune system "defense proteins") that are supposedly specific to and bind to proteins (called antigens) on the "virus"; thus allowing for indirect identification of this "virus".

All of this is interesting, yet it still remains highly questionable that a bunch of nucleotide sequences (aka RNA) are somehow assumed to be "infectious disease causing particles that can infect and replicate through a host and spread to other individuals (and even shut down the entire world)"...

The paper is listed below:

A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
Authors: Na Zhu et al
Published on January 24, 2020 in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001017

The timestamps of key parts of the video are listed below:

RNA Assumed to be from a "Virus": 0:00
RNA extracted from Airway Fluid Samples and Culture Supernatants: 0:22
Asking #ChatGPT to Explain Paragraph: 0:48
#ChatGPT: Assumption is RNA is from a "Virus": 1:41
Summary of RNA "Virus" Assumption: 3:21

This video is taken from my earlier video listed below:

🔥#MESScience 4: Review of COVID-19 "Virus" Isolation Paper:
Video notes: @mes/messcience-4-review-of-covid-19-virus-isolation-paper
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