"When it comes to studying, tampering with or producing new viruses, the international system is the Wild West."
"It’s high time we put a sheriff in charge."
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"It’s high time we put a sheriff in charge."
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"Given what we’ve been through over the past year, you’d imagine that governments are already working to tighten up international regulation of pathogens..But it turns out the real story isn’t comforting at all."
"There’s no formal international body of rules governing research on potentially dangerous biological agents..There’s no international organization monitoring virology research..[T]here’s not even a code of rules.., only..non-binding guidance"
"There's nobody checking what they're doing. There are no inspectors, no regulators. There's none of that.”
"[T]he system is so uncontrolled that there’s not even a..list of..labs."
"[T]he system is so uncontrolled that there’s not even a..list of..labs."
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