Looking forward to taking part in Congressional briefing today on Science Diplomacy at @UDBidenSchool hosted by the awesome @saleem_ali Q: What is the role of science on the public stage in a post-pandemic world? hillhappenings.com/list/2021/5/14…
...how will geopolitical factors influence research and policy on science re. the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, the research enterprise, and supply chains and national security? Key goal – building scientific trust and collaboration in an increasingly fragmented world
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Allan G. Garber of @Harvard sees the value of international collaboration "We also see the dangers of increasingly looking inward" Image
Dr. Tong Shijun, Chancellor of @nyuniversity-Shanghai: "Science and human endeavor is benefitted by mutual understanding among countries, including the US & China". Image
The awesome @DrTolullah of @IndependentSage @MRC_Epid (among other great accomplishments): "We need to trascend silos, act locally, build public trust, work w/ the best advisory platforms". We must "break the false infectious disease-NCD silo". Image
.@DukeEnvironment's Drew Shindell in climate change "Look at insurance companies - they are more interested in risks they don't know well". "We need global cooperation to study the climate crisis & identify benefits of mitigation" Image
.@margagual, founder of @scidipglobal. "Science was one of the few channels for dialog that always remained open between the US & Cuba". Example of fisheries, bird migration - wildlife don't request visas, neither do hurricanes! Image
.@jacob___parker SVP @USChinaBusiness. "There's growing understanding of IP enforcement in China." We now need regular IP dialogs among US & China. On tarrifs: despite agreements now, tarrifs imposed prior to these hurt US jobs & need to be re-examined. Image
Minister @m_loken of @CanEmbUSA. "Science is an important thread running through the Roadmap for renewed Canada-US relationship...e.g. Building critical mineral supply chains for battery development for zero emission vehicles - critical for future national/econ. security." Image
Thanks to @saleem_ali for moderating, @ewhunsaker of @ChrisCoons' office, @lisamurkowski, & the @UDBidenSchool for hosting! ImageImage

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13 May
Prof Shi Zhengli re. call for more focus on lab-leak hypothesis: ".. will definitely damage the reputation & enthusiasm of scientists [working] on animal viruses which have potential spillover risk ..& weaken our ability ..to prevent the next pandemic.” technologyreview.com/2021/05/13/102…
Robert Garry @utmbhealth "“distracts from important work needed to identify the source of SARS-CoV-2..& completely misrepresents the outcomes of @WHO report [that] adds to the large volume of epidemiological and genomic data supporting zoonotic emergence" wsj.com/articles/scien…
.@K_G_Andersen "Letter suggests a false equivalence between the lab escape & natural origin scenarios. To this day no credible evidence has been presented to support the lab leak hypothesis, which remains grounded in speculation.” nytimes.com/2021/05/13/sci…
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11 May
"The NIH has not ever, & does not now, fund 'gain of function research' in the Wuhan Institute." Dr. Fauci of @NIAIDNews testifying today. thehill.com/policy/healthc…
Re. funding @EcoHealthNYC to study bat-CoVs: "Let me explain to you why that was done, the SARS COV-1 originated in bats in China. It would have been irresponsible of us if we did not investigate the bat viruses & the serology to see who might have been infected," Fauci said.
Full hearing here help.senate.gov. @RandPaul Q&A begins at 01:11:59.
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Excellent thread debunking another line of argument in Wade's biased, disingenuous, & wildly erroneous piece.
So much energy spent on the lab-leak hypothesis, following illogical lines of argument, poorly understood science, to support pre-conceived ideas. Here's a story on the pathway that the @WHO origins mission found "likely to very likely" for COVID origins: telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
So, in just 1 day of Twitter responses, an @NIH statement that they did NOT fund GoF studies at WIV & the Furin cleavage site is NOT a 'smoking gun'. I guess Wade got paid & the conspiracists got their chance to point fingers. Meanwhile, somewhere in a wildlife farm in SE Asia...
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Exciting to see this! This antibody treatment was tested against the bat-CoVs discovered by @EcoHealthNYC & our collaborators at WIV, China. It showed that it is broad-acting, able to neutralize COVID variants and other potential future pandemic viruses. clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/adagio-tr…
Here's the scientific paper with references to the bat-CoVs we discovered with funding from @NIAIDNews. science.sciencemag.org/content/371/65…
A big congratulations to @AdagioTx for their strategic vision with ADG20. We're going to need these broad-acting therapeutics to fight upcoming variants, and future pandemics.
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4 May
Good review of @WHO origins report w/ comments from @edwardcholmes "The most likely has always been, & still remains, an animal to human jump, with bats the most likely point of origin but probably through another animal." smh.com.au/national/austr…
“The pathway forward appears to be twofold: 1) try to find more cases of people who had respiratory diseases prior to the 1st case reported in Dec 2019, & are there samples available? That’s really important. It could be Wuhan, Hubei Province or another part of China."
“2nd, the famous Wuhan market came back into focus, not as the place where it emerged, because that’s still not clear, but I think the report is saying – almost between the lines – that animal wildlife farming is most likely responsible."
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22 Feb
Important work here from @edwardcholmes & colleagues providing more evidence that insertions in spike proteins of bat & pangolin SARSr-CoVs show similarities across diff CoVs & therefore arise naturally. virological.org/t/spike-protei…
“..there have been suggestions that scientists should stop investigating the diversity of coronaviruses in bats & other animals (Baker, 2021). We contend that the world should do the opposite if we are to be better prepared to prevent the next pandemic of an emergent coronavirus”
“[these new bat-CoVs] possess different combinations of spike motifs in ..RBD & S1/S2 junction that were 1st described in SARS-CoV-2. These observations are consistent with the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 & strongly inconsistent with a laboratory origin.”
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