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Earlier work on Corona virus type of pathogens

https://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/de/verwandte-der-sars-viren-erstmals-bei-fledermausen-in-deutschland-nachgewiesen-2992.php https://www.gesundheitsforschung-bmbf.de/de/gefahrliche-eindringlinge-droht-nach-der-schweine-und-vogelgrippe-in-zukunft-eine-3200.php

--105.12.2.169 (talk) 02:32, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Should his status as a signatory to the discredited 'bullying' Lancet statement (condemning theories about a non-natural origin of Covid-19) be noted under a controversy section?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.251.199.235 (talk) 18:11, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

COVID-19 lab leak theory

Quotes of Roland Wiesendanger belongt to this aticle. --ZemanZorg (talk) 13:32, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As an author of the Lancet letter calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory, Drosten received criticism from Wiesendanger which was reported in many DE language reliable sources. Drosten is WP:BLPPUBLIC and this is important information for his bio. 101.127.224.150 (talk) 18:44, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Some Corrections on RT-PCR-Test and other facts

Section/Chapter Career, subsection COVID-19 pandemic: The workflow description paper Diagnostic detection of Wuhan coronavirus 2019 by real-time RT-PCR was published by the WHO 2020-01-13. The 2020-01-23 Eurosurveillance paper was the peer-reviewed scientific description of this research.
Section/Chapter Research: Currently, the Wikipedia article says "On 23 January 2020, the research group led by Drosten developed a test that was made available worldwide through the journal Eurosurveillance". In fact, early in January 2020, the research group developed a test, and it was made available worldwide on 13 January by/through the WHO.
Section/Chapter Research, "Citation needed" for MERS research: You can go to his Google Scholar profile, display his top 200 articles, and search for the phrases "2012", "2013", "2014", and "2015" (by the means of your web browser), and you will see many papers on MERS. Alternatively, you can search for the phrase "MERS". I think, this is an easy procedure and should either be described in brief in a reference, or even no reference is needed. (The wikipedian who questioned for citations in the 07:03, 4 April 2021 edit is blocked, so i can not ask him.)
Section/Chapter Research, "The group also published the sequenced genome from samples obtained in Germany", "Citation needed": The claim/assertion (German word: Behauptung) is definitely wrong. The Eurosurveillance article (doi=10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045) says: "The present report describes the establishment of a diagnostic workflow for detection of an emerging virus in the absence of physical sources of viral genomic nucleic acid. Effective assay design was enabled by the willingness of scientists from China to share genome information before formal publication, ... ". I will delete the wrong sentence. (The wikipedian who questioned for citations in the 07:03, 4 April 2021 edit is blocked, so i can not ask him.)
"The group" - I am not sure what this word means. The RT-PCR-Test was developed by an international cooperation of labs, the Drosten lab (Charité) did the largest contribution and Drosten had the chief leading position in the successful effort.

--Himbeerbläuling (talk) 15:00, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just deleted the wrong assertion as announced in No 4. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 15:05, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And i added a link to Google Scholar, followed by a phrase-search-hint as announced in No 3 --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 12:32, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adding No. 6: There is another source from quality media that backs "summa cum laude": It is Frankfurter Neue Presse, https://web.archive.org/web/20200506085004/https://www.fnp.de/frankfurt/coronavirus-frankfurt-zahl-proben-uniklinik-steigt-13569835.html, the word "Höchstnote" means best possible grade. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 15:13, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected No 1.--Himbeerbläuling (talk) 18:04, 1 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]