We have an update on the story we did a couple weeks ago.

This was a story of the Omicron variant.

And remember, just for context, the Omicron variant came out of nowhere in 2021.

This is a phylogenetic chart showing at the bottom there, that's the normal mutations

happening of the alpha strain, the delta strain, then this Omicron strain just shut up this

red line, comes out of nowhere, plants it's flagged in 2021 and becomes a dominant strain.

The researchers and people around the world were going, where the heck did this come from?

How did it become so dominant?

What's happening?

Well, two Japanese researchers actually did this research.

This is Dr. Atushi Tanaka and Dr. Takayuri Miyazawa and they did this unnatural evolutionary

process of SARS-CoV-2 variants and possibility of deliberate natural selection.

We covered that a couple weeks ago and they looked at nearly 400 Omicron variants.

They tracked the mutations to try to reverse track the mutations to really find out where

the heck did this come from?

Because there's these forensic fingerprints in the genome you can track and they published

this chart and this kind of tells the whole story.

We covered this again two weeks ago.

You can go back to that broadcast but there's this stepped process here and this is not

natural evolution.

What they're seeing is it's almost as if it's like a panel or research that we used to

create and test what each mutation would do.

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