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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Only ~90 SARSr-COV sequences from South China been published so far AFAIK.
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Seems like just the kind of thing they can/should confirm and clarify.
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BTW, the paper quoted above is missing >54 sequences compared to their 2018 abstract. Would be good to get a clarification on that too.https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1447569867696078862?s=20 …
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