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10 Dec, 7 tweets, 4 min read
This is becoming a pattern! Another person working for @realDonaldTrump who agitated for @NIHDirector to cancel our funding now being given Remdesivir which was tested w/ results from our grant. @RudyGiulianli you are welcome & I wish you a speedy recovery!foxnews.com/politics/rudy-…
Here's @RudyGiuliani advocating for our reseach funds to be canceled based on erroneous information
Here's his key 'witness' regurgitating these false conspiracy theories & somehow linking them to unproven accusations of election tinkering. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Thanks to @RudyGiuliani's poorly thought out interference, a grant to @EcoHealthNYC funded under @realDonaldTrump was terminated by @NIHDirector & now we can't get access to critical samples that would help us understand the origins of COVID & could be used to improve vaccines.
Here is the scientific paper that reports testing of Remdesivir (aka GS-5734) against bat-CoVs ('prepandemic' viruses) discovered in our work funded by NIH. stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/396/…
Here is a scientific paper showing that another exptl. drug (EIDD-2801) is effective against "SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and related zoonotic group 2b or 2c bat-CoVs" - those discovered by our NIH-funded work.
Thankyou @justinjvallejo of @Independent for an eye-opening piece & for correcting Politifact's misrepresentation of the work we've done. "Samples from the bats [NOT bats!!] were sent to the Wuhan laboratory for genetic analyses of the viruses collected in the field...".

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5 Dec
Here's a fascinating paper (preprint) that analyzes relative influence of international scientific experts (purple) vs. other groups on discourse re. COVID. You can see how rapidly politically-motivated communities (green) took over the conversation in Feb 2020 (fig. 3d, e).
Relative size of political community (blue) vs. others on Twitter discussion of COVID-19. Nice visualization! Thanks to @MarionKoopmans for sending the link. Great analysis from @FraDurazzi & colleagues! Part of the @EuropeVeo that I'm now on Sci. Advisory Board of.
Full reprint available here. arxiv.org/abs/2011.06845
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29 Nov
independent.co.uk/news/health/mi…
Despite headline, I can't find a paper that reports SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-2 in foxes. Here is the @OIEAnimalHealth guidance this article refers to - no mention of foxes, although it broadly suggests should have heightened concern over all farmed mammals oie.int/fileadmin/Home…
Raccoon dogs, mink, ferrets, rabbits known to be infected in lab or farms w/ SARS-CoV-2. Other species known to be receptive to this virus or SARS-CoV (e.g. civets, cats, dogs), so ample reason for concern, increased surveillance etc.
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13 Jul
More details on @WHO visit to China re. COVID origins. No WIV visit planned. I guess @WHO scientists looked at all published data & concluded, like almost all other virologists, that there's no evidence for it coming out of lab & lots for a natural origin. independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…
For those who believe lab leak, or bioengineered theory, or want to 'investigate' that, I believe ultimately they will be disappointed. Finding origins of SARS-CoV-2 will likely involve detailed, lengthy fieldwork, behavioral risk analysis, mapping of wildlife farms & trade..
We've done a lot already (see paper below, now accepted by @NatureComms), & we would be able to do much more to identify origins of COVID & risk of next one, but unfortunately same conspiracies led to our @NIH funding being frozen/terminated!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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1 Jul
Taking part in the @WHO @rd_blueprint Global Research & Innovation Forum today. Here's a comment from @DrMikeRyan: "Countries w/ govts that communicate complex science directly to the public, & use science as a basis for control, have had much better success fighting COVID-19"
.@WHO Director General @DrTedros gives his opening comments: "At our 1st @rd_blueprint mtg in Feb. we knew so little about COVID-19. We need to continue working hard on the science behind this disease through these working groups to defeat the pandemic"
.@Dr_Wildlife from @EcoHealthNYC reports on the Animal-Human link in COVID emergence. "The animal trade & consumption pathway needs more attention - not just wildlife trade, but also livestock and fur farming"
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1 Jun
Our paper out now describes phylogeny of >700 novel RdRp sequences of bat-CoVs from China w/ all others known (500+ bat-, 8 pangolin-CoVs) in press w/@NatureComms Collab w/ Wuhan Inst Virol, Guangdong Acad Sci @DukeNUS @UQ_News @nycbat @dukenus @EpsteinJon biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Adds more evidence SARS-CoV-2 emerged naturally: High diversity of bat-CoVs in wild; 100+ Sarbecovirus genus sequences (SARS1/2 clade); Pangolin viruses close to SARS-CoV-2 but RaTG13 & RmYN02 bat-CoVs closer (Rhinolophus hosts). This clade has Spike insertion cf. SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) prob emerged from Rhinolophus bat-CoV clade in SW China or neighboring countries. 2 closest (RaTG13/RmYN02) from Yunnan close to Myanmar & both bat hosts found across SE Asia. Sampling only in China, so can't rule out origin in Myanmar, Lao PDR, Vietnam etc.
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29 May
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.
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