Thread by @Ayjchan

Experts keep telling me how useful it is to have Daszak on the team because he likely knows more about the WIV than the average person, but he's already gotten 2 major things wrong: when RaTG13's genome was sequenced + whether the WIV had bats in the lab.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

Unfortunately, this approach seems to have influenced the WHO investigation. The team, during a 3-hour press conference in China, dismissed lab leak as "extremely unlikely" based on what Wuhan scientists told them, believing that only 3 SARS viruses have been isolated in the WIV.

I was at first worried that most scientists would just fall in line with the WHO "findings" but I'm glad that experts are speaking up about the lack of rigor in this investigation. Same article in the Mail on Sunday has quotes from several top experts. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

I told @ianbirrell "The investigation served China’s purposes by delivering precisely the outcome it wanted since the WHO was saying things such as the need to investigate frozen food transmission and suggestions the virus came from another country while ruling out a lab leak."

Same article, @C_Small_ points out that, Nov 2019, WIV filed a patent for "device to treat injuries sustained while working with pathogenic viruses in a biosafety lab" - Why would WIV file a finger tourniquet patent if no lab incidents were occurring?

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

Did the @WHO team, during the meeting with the WIV, inquire about these patents for bat cages and finger tourniquets? Was the tourniquet patent filed for fun? In that no finger injuries were occurring at the WIV but someone had time to invent and patent a device to address these?

I'm going to check the full report when it arrives to understand whether WHO team asked for details about what animal species were in the lab and when; what pathogen sequences, regardless of host species, the WIV (any of its labs) had access to and when; and the missing database.

“a tool for quickly bundling fingers in a biological safety laboratory”
“slowing down blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Facilitating subsequent disinfection and wound treatment.”

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