MIT finds SARS-CoV-2 integrates into genomes

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https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/21/e2105968118.full.pdf

Context for this paper:
- so high quality, even as a paper destroying current dogma it passed peer review
- its published and passed peer review for the PNAS journal, which is one of the top journals
- It is from a large research group based at the top university of the world. MIT.
- It is from a large research group based at the top Molecular Biology & Genetics Institute at the top university of the world. Whitehead Institute.
- Senior author is the legend Rudolf Jaenisch. The guy who created the transgenic mouse and is one of the legacy Stem Cell scientists together with Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon.
- It's not some "end of career/throwaway" paper. The Jaenisch group has fought for years now to publish this and stand behind it strongly. It might be the career defining paper for Rudolf Jaenisch.


Now read it at awe and you will find great evidence that SARS-Cov-2 integrated into genomes. Everyone has reverse-transcriptases in their body (don't listen to your loser community college Prof who says you dont). They are natural part of retrotransposons which make up a bigger part of your genome than protein encoding genes! Your body can also produce telomerase which is a reverse transcriptase.

I ask myself:

- How about other RNA viruses like the flu? What makes SARS-Cov-2 so special biologically that it seems to integrated better than flu or other Corona viruses?
- What is the normal reverse-transcription background-activity you can expect in the body?