Thorough analysis by @theintercept @fastlerner @MaraHvistendahl @maiahibbett
“The real question is whether or not research has the potential to create or facilitate the selection of viruses that might infect humans.” theintercept.com/2021/09/09/cov…
“The real question is whether or not research has the potential to create or facilitate the selection of viruses that might infect humans.” theintercept.com/2021/09/09/cov…
“All but two of the scientists consulted agreed that, whatever title it is given, the newly public experiment raised serious concerns about the safety and oversight of federally funded research.”
Although the study describing 4991/RaTG13 for the first time and Latinne et al.’s paper were described as having been funded by the EHA grant, I didn’t see even a glimpse of the 9 Mojiang mine SARSrCoVs throughout the 900+ pages of text, phylogenetic trees and other figures.
The contents of the proposal/updates are important but so are the info missing from it.
Why not mention the novel SARSrCoVs discovered under the same program? They were found in a mine where people had sickened, half died, with a pneumonia suspected to be caused by a virus.
Why not mention the novel SARSrCoVs discovered under the same program? They were found in a mine where people had sickened, half died, with a pneumonia suspected to be caused by a virus.
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