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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
@R_H_Ebright
Sep 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
"Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/2…
"They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the [US] Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work."
"The bid was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, the US-based organisation, which has worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researching bat coronaviruses. Team members included..Shi Zhengli, the WIV researcher dubbed 'bat woman'"
"Darpa refused to fund the work, saying: 'It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk', and warned..the team had not properly considered..dangers of enhancing..virus (gain of function research) or releasing a vaccine by air."
"Viscount Ridley..called for..investigation..in..House of Lords..'For more than a year I tried..to ask questions of..Daszak with no response. Now it turns out he..authored this vital piece of information about..work in Wuhan but refused to share it with the world. I am furious.'"
"So should the world be."
* The proposal calls for aerosol delivery of recombinant SARSr CoV spike proteins in nanoparticles or in orthopoxviral vectors. Not aerosol delivery of SARSr CoVs.

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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."
Read 7 tweets
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Mar 29
The economics of antibiotics are broken and superbugs are on the rise–but a solution inspired by the subscription economy could save millions of lives

fortune.com/2024/03/28/eco…
"Every year…3 million Americans develop drug-resistant infections, leading to…50,000 deaths. After heart disease and cancer, AMR is the leading cause of death from disease in the US…[I]t’s estimated that by 2050, superbugs will kill 10 million people per year worldwide."
"That’s the medical side of the problem. We also have an economic and political problem."
Read 13 tweets
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Mar 28
Retrospective of Allison Young's reports on the shocking frequency of US biosafety and biosecurity incidents and the shocking inadequacy of US-government oversight of biosafety and biosecurity

UNC coronavirus biosafety incidents (1 of 2)

propublica.org/article/near-m…
"The mouse infected with a lab-created…SARS coronavirus was…dangling by its tail as a scientist carried it…in 2016. But the…task turned dangerous in seconds inside the North Carolina lab…, which has drawn scrutiny for its partnership…with…Wuhan Institute of Virology."
"As she carried the mouse, it climbed up its tail and bit her hard, breaking through the gloves and plunging its teeth — and potentially the virus — into her ring finger."
Read 18 tweets
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Mar 26
"A former New York Times journalist…attacked…scientists for…misleading him over the Covid lab-leak theory in…early days of the pandemic. Donald McNeil…said their efforts to throw him 'off track'…contributed to the topic being 'dropped' for a year."

telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/0…
"Donald McNeil Jr…said he became sceptical of the hypothesis the virus was engineered in a Wuhan lab after…virologists [falsely] insisted it wasn’t possible."
"In his book The Wisdom of Plagues, which looks back at 25 years covering pandemics, Mr McNeil Jr said the scientists 'clearly misled me early on' and he was a 'victim of deception'"
Read 15 tweets
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Mar 26
"The number of labs studying the deadliest…pathogens has increased dramatically since SARS-CoV-2…was first identified in 2019. There were 51 Level 4 labs in 27 countries as of last year, roughly double the number 10 years ago"

BSL-4 lab for Saskatchewan
cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…
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"Another 18 [BSL-4 labs], including Saskatchewan's, are planned or under construction."
"The biggest growth areas are in Asia and Africa, said Filippa Lentzos, a biosecurity expert who leads the Global BioLabs mapping project at King's College London, which will publish its next report in 2025."
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