More. In response to an Congressional inquiry, NIH says Daszak's EcoHealth was not complying with requirements from a 2018-2019 grant to "report immediately" on potentially dangerous experiments conducted in collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology.https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1450938549721710593 …
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We know from freedom-of-information requests (not by by traditional media for the most part) that EcoHealth's President Peter Daszak was instrumental in coordinating the high-profile "scientist response" to the question of origins, and was in both WHO team and Lancet task force.
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I hope all this is a lesson on the downfalls of credulity and group-think—even among smart people. People who *correctly* suggested that the required transparency, investigation and accountability were deeply lacking were branded as conspiracy theorists. That's how trust is lost.
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How German virologist Alexander Kekulé describes his reaction to the unearthing of the (unfunded!) grant application by EcoHealth/WIV. (Also note he later points out why/how the way forward is the same: better outbreak surveillance and lab oversight). https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Kekule-sieht-neue-Hinweise-fuer-Laborunfall-article22875216.html …pic.twitter.com/1NOpLSAYS9
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More. EcoHealth had denied experiments with MERS but a missing NIH report Intercept JUST got says “We constructed the full-length infectious clone of MERS-CoV, and replaced the RBD of MERS-CoV with the RBDs of various strains of HKU4-related coronaviruses" https://theintercept.com/2021/10/21/virus-mers-wuhan-experiments/ …pic.twitter.com/SmjvceQplY
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So, EcoHealth submitted the fourth year report in 2018 and then, inexplicably, updated it in 2020 *only* to update the references? I've had big grants—who updates a report years later only for new references? Besides, can't even resubmit without agency approval? This is bizarre.pic.twitter.com/arVVDwL2dh
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Seeker
Also, this from the unearthed grant: shouldn't these"180 unique SARSr-CoVs" from bats EcoHealth says they collected be shared with the scientific community already? (As far as I know, they have not been disclosed yet).https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1440337832472576014 …
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Marcus Weinman Retweeted Peter Daszak
He disclosed them right here...? https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1397346763103670282 … https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17687-3#MOESM1 …
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Peter Daszak @PeterDaszakReplying to @K_G_Andersen @mlipsitchFrom Spring 2019-Summer 2020, we wrote, revised, resubmitted this paper w/ all SARSr-CoV RdRp sequences from our work at WIV. RaTG13 is in there & 630 novel sequences, but none closer to SARS-CoV-2. If WIV had SARS-CoV-2, it's RdRp would have been in here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17687-3 … pic.twitter.com/G9jpn5PVi41 reply 0 retweets 10 likes -
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Okay! Someone should ask and confirm that—it would be good to clear up.
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It's published in nature and not behind a paywall. That's about as accessible as it can be, at least for someone with training anyways. Still, it's been right there, technically accessible by anyone, at any time. Feel free to click the link and read the data for yourself!
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No, the paywall isn't the issue (besides I have access as an academic). I'll ask them to confirm that everything referenced in that earlier grant proposal re:the sequences has been disclosed as part of that later package. Should be straightforward for them to attest to that.
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(Given all the issues that have been encountered, I'd rather ask them then assume things myself).
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