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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
@R_H_Ebright
Jun 3, 2021 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
"[F]rom..first reports of..outbreak in Wuhan, it took..a nanosecond..to consider..link to..Wuhan Institute of Virology. Only two other labs in..world, in Galveston, TX, and Chapel Hill, NC, were doing similar research..It’s not a dozen cities..It’s three"

vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t…
"'If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology,' an unnamed longtime agency official told the magazine. 'Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.'"

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Apr 23
"Antibiotic development is challenging: the process can take 10 to 15 years and cost…$1 B…With antimicrobial resistance…estimated to cause 1.2 M deaths…per year, we need to ensure that new antibiotics are not only being developed but also…used"

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
"[D]espite the development and regulatory approval of 7 new antibiotics active against multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in the last 10 years, uptake of these antibiotics has been slow."
"[U]tilization o…next-generation antibiotics, including meropenem–vaborbactam, eravacycline, imipenem–cilastatin–relebactam, and cefiderocol was…low…, with no [!!!] documented use of plazomicin."
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Apr 20
"With the current level of action, it is projected that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will lead to significantly higher healthcare costs, with annual expenses for treating resistant bacterial infections estimated to reach US $412 billion worldwide."

amrleaders.org/resources/m/it…
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"The increase in morbidity and mortality resulting from these bacterial infections [also] will have secondary effects, resulting in losses of approximately US $443 billion annually from reduced workforce participation alone."
"Evaluation of a package of...interventions—including awareness raising, surveillance, stewardship in human and animal health, infection prevention, and new treatments—suggests that there is potential to avert nearly US $7.7 trillion in losses...by 2035."
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Apr 20
"The FBI was tipped off in April 2020 to gain-of-function virus research in China, funded by the agency formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that 'would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation,' emails from agents at the bureau show."

nypost.com/2024/04/19/us-…
"At least one FBI agent at the bureau’s Newark Field Office referred to the revelation as 'alarming.'"

"The five-pages of emails were obtained...via a FOIA request and released Friday."
"'These smoking gun documents showed the FBI quickly understood that Fauci’s agency funded the gain-of-function research that could disguise the resulting coronavirus as 'natural,' Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said"
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Apr 20
""The FBI was tipped off in April 2020 to gain-of-function virus research in China, funded by the agency formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that 'would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation,' emails from agents at the bureau show."

nypost.com/2024/04/19/us-…
"At least one FBI agent at the bureau’s Newark Field Office referred to the revelation as 'alarming.'
"The five-pages of emails were obtained...via a FOIA request and released Friday."
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Apr 16
"The…Proximal Origins paper that dismissed the plausibility that COVID…resulted from a research-related incident sits among the most consequential failures of scientific integrity…I have seen in…30 years working on science and technology policy."

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"The production, publication, and post-publication treatment of…'Proximal Origins'…represents a major failure of scientific integrity by its authors, its unacknowledged ghost contributors (including U.S. government officials), and the academic journal that published it."
"In their roles contributing to the coordination of Proximal Origins, US government officials, specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins,[ likely violated the Scientific Integrity Policies of the Department of Health and Human Services."
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Apr 4
"During his closed-door transcribed interview with the Committees on November 14, 2023, Dr. Daszak made multiple statements inconsistent with documents and evidence reviewed by the Committees."
House letter cites examples of false Comgressional testimony provided by Daszak

d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/2024_04_04_SSC…
"On November 14, 2023, you testified at a transcribed interview before the Committees…At the interview, committee counsel advised that…if you knowingly made false statements, you could be subject to criminal prosecution."
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