I’ve made what I consider an important update to “Questioning the ‘First Known Person-to-Person Transmission of SARS-CoV-2’”:
The case of the Chicago couple has troubled me for years. I have asked a wide range of analysts and scientists more knowledgeable than I am why the couple’s sequences failed to “cluster” as expected, but have yet to receive a clear, complete, or satisfying explanation.
The case matters because the couple was used to support the first known U.S. person-to-person transmission claim. If the husband was infected by his wife, their purported viral sequences should presumably have been closely related. Given the role of human-to-human “spread” in WHO and U.S. emergency declarations (discussed with Katherine Watt here) what actually occurred with the Chicago couple remains consequential.
Even though I consider phylogenetic trees to be constructed fool’s errands enabled by black-box technologies, the Chicago couple’s “sequences” still warrant explanation. Why they failed to cluster as expected may help reveal not only what SARS-CoV-2 “is,” but also what the entities called viruses are and whether they “exist” and function as claimed.
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