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Sorry for the politics but this is just wrong. While US deals w/ yet another police killing of a black man. While COVID rages, @realDonaldTrump begins press conf. blaming China for pandemic, trying to distract from appalling leadership fighting outbreak. cbsnews.com/news/trump-pre…
Our President should not be severing relationship with @WHO period, let alone during the middle of the outbreak of the century. I'm saddened to say that @WHO did a better job than we did here in US of dealing with COVID-19.
I am trying to keep the politics out of our pandemic analysis, but it's really hard when what should be a time to speak frankly about our crises here in the US turns into a badly-timed, insensitive, & upside down narrative about 'Wuhan virus'. Just disastrous on many levels.
Oh, & by the way, he left the Press Conf without mentioning the police killing of George Floyd, & without allowing questions from the press. America, we can do better. Republican or Democrat, we can do better!
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Worth reading. China's view of US conspiracy theories: "For ordinary people with limited information ..This is understandable. But for a government & top officials with lots of good information to say this? I can’t understand that." sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/h…
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Q: When you look at the United States today, what do you think about the way we responded?

A: You have responded very badly. You didn’t really have a response at the beginning, or even for a few months in some states, for reasons I could not understand.
China's view probably reflects many other countries view of our response to COVID - chaotic, lacking leadership, dangerous, & one that has already cost many more lives than it could have. edition.cnn.com/2020/05/23/wor…
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Thanks for the critique Jonathan. This is a poorly designed phylogenetic study with too many inferences & not enough data, riding on a wave of conspiracy to drive a higher impact.
It's riddled with inaccuracies that suggest lack of understanding of the data they've analyzed e.g. "The S of RaTG13 is also capable of binding to human ACE2 although the virus does not infect humans (49)." This virus has not been isolated, so unknown whether can infect people.
or "..response to [SARS] deployed...strategies that were key to detecting ..adaptation to humans & cross-species transmission..(i) Sampling animals from markets, farms, & wild populations ..." Wrong: sampling of wild populations began later, based on our research, not response.
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Critically important! I’ve been saying since 1st wk of Jan that SARS-CoV-2 might have spilled over from bats to farmed wildlife then to the Wuhan market. This demonstrates that’s a viable pathway! reuters.com/article/us-hea…
In early Jan, we heard 40+ people were infected by this likely bat-origin CoV at the market. It was unlikely a single bat-to-human spillover happened at the market. I proposed that if a farmer brought infected animals, that were sold, killed, butchered, this could be the source.
There are thousands of wildlife farms across S. China w/ mixed wildlife (civets, mink, raccoon dogs, bamboo rats, porcupines etc.) & livestock (pigs, rabbits, ducks, chicken etc.). A perfect mixing vessel for a virus to emerge through. It is possible COVID-19 was in these farms..
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