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22 Jun, 6 tweets, 4 min read
The @TheLancet has created a #COVID19 Commission, with mostly predictable members, chaired by Jeffrey Sachs. covid19commission.org/commissioners It has 12 Taskforces. One studies viral origins debate-- its 1st rpt has no conclusions, but a research wish-list.
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2/ There are now so many #COVID19 intl commissions & task forces out there that I doubt anyone can keep track, or read all their reports. Everything is couched in UN-speak -- "might have," "could have", "may in the future."
Jeff Sachs writes:
"The question about origins..."
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3/ "...is not about one govt or another, much less a geopolitical issue or a matter of blaming China & exonerating the US. If there was indeed a laboratory-related release of #SARSCoV2, it may well have occurred in a project funded by the US govt, using methods developed..."
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4/ "...and championed by US scientists, & as part of a US-led & US-financed program to collect & analyze potentially dangerous viruses, including in China.
@TheLancet #COVID19 Commission will carefully scrutinize these issues in advance of its final report in mid-2022."
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5/ "The Commission’s overriding aim is to recommend policies to prevent & contain future disease #outbreaks, & its technical work will be conducted by indep experts who were not themselves involved directly in the US-China research under scrutiny."
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6/ "The scientists who were involved should explain fully the nature of their work. In the meantime, the Comm will tap biosafety experts to help assess the relevant hypotheses on the origins of #SARSCoV2 ..."

That clear things up for you?
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As the incidence of #DeltaVariant #SARSCoV2 rises in the US, India says a worse, "Delta+" strain has emerged that bypasses the @AstraZeneca #vaccine .
Meanwhile, the #COVID19 crisis in India begat a mucormycosis -- "black fungus" -- nightmare.
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“It’s a form of flesh-eating fungus that destroys tissues as it grows. If it involves the sinus, they have to be cleared."
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3/ "If it involves the eye — the eyeball, lids, muscles around the eye have to be removed, leaving behind the bare, bony socket.”
The drug used for treatment, amphotericin B, is expensive, in short supply, is infused & has lots of side effects.
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22 Jun
Whooo-boy, this preprint by Jesse Bloom is going to roil the waters of #SARSCoV2 origins debates. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
It's complicated, but I will try to walk thru some key points. Bloom -- who was part of a group of scientists that recently demanded better scrutiny of...MORE
2/...the origins of the Dec 2019 Wuhan #SARSCoV2 outbreak, found 13 early viral genomes on Google iCloud that had been deleted -- mysteriously -- from NIH’s Sequence Read Archive. The sequences were collected in Jan2020 by Aisu Fu and Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University.
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3/ Bloom interrogates Googled genomes, comparing them to ones in the public record, & concludes they are more bat-like & show no connection to the Wuhan animal market. His Pre-print takes a dark turn. I quote: "Crucially, both putative progenitors are 3 mutations closer.." MORE
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17 Jun
The African population of 1.3 billion has received <0.6% of the world's #COVID19 #vaccine doses. The African Union has a $2B fund for purchase of vax, but nobody will sell to them because Europe & US & Canada have contracted for the entire global supply.
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2/ Despite promises made at #G7 most of the world, especially Africa, won't get #COVID19 #vaccines until 2022-23.
Meanwhile, Africa's economy is collapsing & countries are losing 20 years of development. The @IMF has loaned Europe the equivalent of $2300/person for...
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3/...#COVID19 recovery, but promised Africa only $27/person. One top African officials said today to us, "Rich countries are hording vaccines & hording cheap cash. This is not global order, it is hording."
No justice.
No equity.
No survival?
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13 Jun
A large team of virologists from several insts in China have discovered #SARSCoV2 - like viruses in bats in Yunnan Province. This pre-print contains much of interest.
- 411 bat samples were collected between May 2019 & Nov 2020.
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- 3 of them carry a genetically distinct spike gene that could weakly bind to the human ACE2 receptors in vitro
- and 3 other viruses were found, similar to the one that caused #SARS in 2003

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- the ecological niche for these bats stretches from South Laos & Vietnam & Myanmar to southern China
- genetic sequence identity for #SARSCoV2 and original #SARS of new-found viruses ranges from 94 to 97.7%
- some genomic clustering with pangolin virus seen
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6 Jun
Trump supporters have successfully turned our USA #COVID19 world upside down.
After a year of calling #SARSCoV2 the "China Virus" they "leaked" unconfirmed info on the Wuhan Inst Virology that now has the media self-flagellating about "discounting the lab leak theory."
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 Then, they wove a false narrative about NIH funding gain-of-function experiments inside WIV that led to creation of a #COVID super-bug, which "leaked" spawning our pandemic.
And then it's "The Fauci Virus" -- all Tony Fauci's alleged idea, and financing.
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 Now #TonyFauci has gone from being America's #COVID19 hero to the target of hatred --even Donald #Trump Jr tweeted a slightly veiled call for killing Fauci.
As skeptical as you may be about the origins of the virus, consider who stands to gain from the new narrative. And lose.
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Choice excerpts from @POTUS @JoeBiden speech yesterday in Cleveland:
"From a year of darkness, we're now emerging into the light. And I said from the very beginning: There's no chance -- no chance for this economy to come back unless we beat the #pandemic."
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"And after administering 271 million doses of #vaccine in the first 120 days...cases are down now from January 83%. The number of deaths has fallen by 85%.
Schools are reopening. Businesses are reopening. Restaurants are reopening.
We've turned the tide..."
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"...on the once-in-a-century #pandemic...(and) on a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Families are beginning to be able to breathe just a little bit easier.
We still have work to do, but our future today is as bright & wide open as it ever has been."
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