"To maintain objectivity, the WHO must contend with the fact that Chinese govt-supplied information is simply not reliable. To base factual findings solely on the word of China’s government places an unwarranted degree of trust in..a totalitarian state."

thediplomat.com/2021/02/the-wh…
"Embarek..gave a nod to Beijing’s extraordinary theory..that covid may have been introduced to China on frozen meat packaging. However, there are factual issues with such statements. By Beijing’s own statistics, covid cases spiked in China over a month before Italy & Spain."
"Beijing seems to have played some role in securing Tedros’ position as WHO DG in 2017. The year prior, the WHO removed Taiwan from its observer status at Beijing’s request. During the pandemic, this exclusion..has meant willfully endangering the lives of Taiwan’s 24M citizens."
"A step in the right direction for WHO would be to insist on Taiwan’s immediate reinstatement as an observer. This is well within its power. China may object or even withdraw, but it has no right to threaten others’ health."

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13 Feb
For those still following the sordid tale: It's more than a year, and there's no trail of the virus until it caused an outbreak in Wuhan. No precursor strains or intermediary host, earlier patients had no market connection, & none of the animal samples tested positive for SARS2.
In the mean time, the closest know virus to SARS-CoV-2 was traced to samples collected from a mineshaft, 1000 miles away from Wuhan, where 3 miners died in 2012.

Doctors who treated the miners concluded that their illness was "caused by a SARS-like coronavirus."
Shi Zhengli's team went on multiple expeditions to collect viruses from the mine. They were brought back, stored and studied in the Wuhan labs.

I can hardly imagine them missing out on new SARS-like pandemic viruses.
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11 Feb
“This was supposed to be an unbiased investigation, something the world needs and deserves, yet we’ve seen no indication of impartiality or transparency——quite the opposite, unfortunately,”

aidshealth.org/2021/02/covid-…
"This investigation must be continued and by an independent team that is not bound by the constraints of a host government that has erred on the side of saving face.”
“At the earliest opportunity after leaving China, the investigative team must release a detailed report and hold a press conference where they take questions from journalists, as well as from other virologists who have expressed skepticism on the findings,”
Read 4 tweets
10 Feb
"I was surprised to see some members of the team dismiss the accidental lab leak theory while seeming to suggest without any specific evidence the possibility that frozen food might have played a role," @jbloom_lab said.

washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
"I remain agnostic about the origins...But it's important to have a careful independent accounting of the research...that was being done in labs in Wuhan prior to the emergence of this pandemic, and it doesn't appear that this team accomplished that," @jbloom_lab said.
All told, "China was the big winner," said @YanzhongHuang . "We understand that they are doing their work within the parameters of the government. But you don't want to jump to a conclusion based on several hours of conversation with Chinese scientists."
Read 5 tweets
9 Feb
WHO investigating frozen foods
WHO investigating Covid circulation in Wuhan before December 2019
WHO investigating Wuhan seafood market
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9 Feb
Scientific research must always be curious (2019.02.13) | An exclusive interview with Shi Zhengli on her award winning submission “Research on Important Viruses Carried by Bats in China” which won the 2nd prize of the 2018 National Natural Science Award

archive.is/BUhMI
"Research on Important Viruses Carried by Bats in China”, The team. archive.is/jKq7B 2019.01.08 | Except for Li Yan, all authors of Ge et al. (2013)
"Major breakthroughs have been made in molecular epidemiology, new virus discovery and identification, and cross-species transmission mechanism, and many original results have been obtained." | Virosin's feature article on Shi Zhengli's research award

archive.is/p67wi
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7 Feb
History of COVID-19 - Chapter 6 - Part 3: The key date of 2012 - when and how a virus related to RaTG13 could have passed to humans and in how long?

francesoir.fr/societe-scienc…
"The clock values ​​calculated by Benvenuto et al. indicate that the evolution time between SARS-Cov2 and RaTG13 would be between 7.3 - 4.7 years. This gives a range between 2012 & 2015 covering exactly by its upper limit the incident at the Mojiang mine."
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"Therefore, RaTG13 or an extremely close virus may well be the ancestor of SARS-Cov2...In conclusion, obviously the sequencing in 2018 of the RaTG13 virus, from which SARS-Cov2 could certainly be descended, was not revealed until February 2020."
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