Dr. Callahan can run around the world picking clinical isolates out of disease outbreaks and prioritize things that way.
"If I were, you know, doing things, I might do what I know. I might resynthesize SARS, put a toxin on it, infect myself, and cough on people"
Dr. Callahan:
"Yes. We find avian influenza disquieting in the extreme, and the reasons are basically that most of the work is already being done for the terrorists.
Several of those countries have become more difficult to work with in recent history" (China)
August 2018:
"Despite requests from U.S. research institutions and government officials, the Chinese government has concealed lab samples of H7N9, The specimens are necessary for creating vaccines and preparing for future biological threats"
"Jeopardizing U.S. access to foreign pathogens and therapies to counter them undermines our nation's ability to protect against infections which can spread globally within days,"
2019:
Michael Callahan, ex-head of DARPA's Prophecy Program, with tight connections to EHA via David Franz & William Karesh & working with Robert Kadlec (BARDA)
in Nanjing working on an "avian influenza project" with Nanjing Hospital Doctors
"While at DARPA, he launched Prophecy, the international physician Early Alert network, which delivers 24/7 emergency consultation, reagents & therapeutics for catastrophic infectious disease outbreaks, SARS Hong Kong & H7N9 Nanjing"
"SPIKED tells the inside story of one of humanity’s biggest & most pressing mysteries: the debate over the origins of COVID-19"
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2. The Making of the Documentary (20 minutes)
"Unfolding like true crime, this detective story takes us deep into clashing conspiracy theories & partisanship while exposing the dangers posed by experiments regularly taking place in the world’s biolabs"
"It’s about the future of biotech and the next pandemic. We wanted to make a contentious story really exciting, with twists and turns, that covers the science but with a strong dramatic structure"