Thread by @PeterHotez

We’ve wasted vast energy on phony GOF and lab leak nonsense. I’ve worked in China for 3 decades. I’ve said since the beginning: unless we find a Sino-US path of cooperation across Central China for a year to understand at a granular level the origins, we’ll have another pandemic

https://twitter.com/drsanjaygupta/status/1439743989570277380

On multiple occasions I’ve offered to both Trump and Biden White House to appoint me as US Science Envoy to break the ice and get to the bottom of this. The realpolitik is that it’s more convenient and expedient to do nothing and posture than it is to prevent COVID-26 COVID-32

I guess I should say “reappoint” having served in the Obama Administration 2015-16. We got some serious things done

We’ve had SARS in 2002-03, MERS in 2012, and we started working on coronavirus vaccines because we saw the writing on the wall: there would be a 3rd pandemic and that was the worst yet. But there are new horrors that await us. Stop with the nonsense, let’s work together in China