evidence: The second argument laid out by Bryn Duffy above is unrelated to the technical claim laid in this article. It is true that base pair substitutions are possible without altering the function of course. However, for forensic purposes, one must prove that the coronavirus genome contains precise parts of the HIV genome, not just proteins that are common amongst many different viruses. [...] As a molecular biologist, I also want to say that if I designed putting such short insertions from HIV into coronavirus, I would not use different HIV strains for each insertion site 😉 - [...] If and I’m saying if it is established that this virus does indeed contain HIV insertions, what implications does this have for the vaccines that have been developed for a coronavirus, does this not make them null and void.