3 takeaways from the recently released EcoHealth grant proposals & reports:
1. By March 2018, they had a roadmap for detecting & inserting novel rare (furin) cleavage sites into novel low risk SARS-like viruses.
2. By 2019, chimeric human pathogen MERS-CoV research was ongoing.
1. By March 2018, they had a roadmap for detecting & inserting novel rare (furin) cleavage sites into novel low risk SARS-like viruses.
2. By 2019, chimeric human pathogen MERS-CoV research was ongoing.
3. Several groups of people were aware of either one or both of the points above and decided not to say anything about it for close to 2 years since SARS2 emerged in Wuhan.
2 urgent things need to be done now:
1. All EcoHealth+collaborator communications, docs, data related to SARS-like viruses must be made public/investigated by a credible team
2. A new moratorium & overhaul of framework+oversight structure on pandemic potential pathogen research
1. All EcoHealth+collaborator communications, docs, data related to SARS-like viruses must be made public/investigated by a credible team
2. A new moratorium & overhaul of framework+oversight structure on pandemic potential pathogen research
Let’s not get bogged down by the back and forth confusion between EcoHealth and NIH on reporting compliance, making us forget what needs to actually get done.
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