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'''SARS-COV-2 has never been isolated''' is a false claim made in debates around the [[SARS-COV-2 exists|existence of SARS-COV-2]] as well as contestations of the legitimacy of public health interventions related to SARS-COV-2.

The claim can appear in a context of full denial that SARS-COV-2 exists or a denial of the causal link between SARS-COV-2 and the respiratory symptoms that it is believed to be causing{{Cite web|url=https://needtoknow.news/2021/12/dr-andrew-kaufman-exposes-the-omicran-variant-scam-used-to-increases-covid-case-numbers/|title=Dr. Andrew Kaufman Exposes the ‘Omicran Variant’ Scam that Increases Covid Case Numbers|last=Kaufman|first=Andrew|date=December 27, 2021|publisher=Need To Know|access-date=January 19, 2022}}. Alternative theories as to the cause for the respiratory symptoms are generally provided in conjunction with those claims, such as [[5G radiation causes SARS-COV-2 symptoms]], [[Poison causes SARS-COV-2 symptoms]] or [[Regular flu causes SARS-COV-2 symptoms]]{{Cite web|url=https://kundaliniandcelltowers.com/Dr-Andrew-Kaufman-and-the-Exosomes-Coronavirus-Truth-Weblyf-2020April.pdf|title=Dr. Andrew Kaufman and the Exosomes (Coronavirus Truth)|last=Herer|first=James|date=April, 2020|publisher=Weblyf Community|access-date=January 19, 2022}}.

The claim that '''SARS-COV-2 has never been isolated''' ignores multiple reports which indicate that SARS-COV-2 has indeed been isolated. For instance, a team has sampled the virus from patients and successfully led the virus to reproduce in Vero-CCL81 and Vero E6 cells in the laboratory{{Cite web|url=https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0516_article|title=Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from Patient with Coronavirus Disease, United States|last=Harcourt et al.|first=|date=June, 2020|publisher=Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 26, Number 6|access-date=January 19, 2022}}. A team in Korea has applied the same technique to isolate SARS-COV-2 and found a similar genetic sequence to that of other countries{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045880/|title=Identification of Coronavirus Isolated from a Patient in Korea with COVID-19|last=Kim et al.|first=|date=February, 2020|publisher=Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives 11:3-7|access-date=January 19, 2022}}. Two teams in Canada have done the same{{Cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/i-study-viruses-how-our-team-isolated-the-new-coronavirus-to-fight-the-global-pandemic-133675|title=I study viruses: How our team isolated the new coronavirus to fight the global pandemic|last=Mossman|first=Karen|date=March 25, 2020|publisher=The Conversation|access-date=January 19, 2022}}.

Finally, SARS-COV-2 has been imaged using electron microscopy{{Cite web|url=https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/novel-coronavirus-sarscov2-images|title=New Images of Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Now Available|last=NIAID Media Team|first=|date=February 13, 2020|publisher=NIAID Now|access-date=January 19, 2022}}.

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