Wish the @cnn @drsanjaygupta special was longer. Must have so much more valuable footage from each of the interviewees. Q&A with @PeterDaszak and Dr Ralph Baric was 👌 Thank you for having me on the show ☄️producer and team! 
Take home messages were:
1. No definitive evidence for natural or lab origin - jury still out
2. No actual investigation of lab origin yet
3. Extensive SARS-related virus work done at low biosafety levels
4. Large pathogen database MIA
5. But natural origins still possible
1. No definitive evidence for natural or lab origin - jury still out
2. No actual investigation of lab origin yet
3. Extensive SARS-related virus work done at low biosafety levels
4. Large pathogen database MIA
5. But natural origins still possible
Ancestral bat origin most likely according to most experts and WHO.
Problem is we don’t know how a bat virus evolved and transformed into the SARS2 virus that was detected in Wuhan in December 2019.
Were research activities involved?
Problem is we don’t know how a bat virus evolved and transformed into the SARS2 virus that was detected in Wuhan in December 2019.
Were research activities involved?
There is no evidence that a foreign scientist working at a Wuhan BSL4 would’ve been notified (even by gossip) of an emerging pathogen in the city before she left in Nov 2019. It was flu season. People didn’t know it was a coronavirus till Dec. Sick WIV workers were not BSL4.
On @cnn special @drsanjaygupta holds @peterdaszak to the fire on the missing WIV database. Why hasn’t he, as a long time collaborator and funder of WIV, gotten ahold of it? The database was created to predict or prevent pandemics. This is a pandemic, so why has it been hidden?
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