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4 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
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FULL COMMITTEE HEARING
Next Steps: The Road Ahead for the COVID-19 Response

help.senate.gov/hearings/next-…
And… zero steps taken to ask for new specific measures to regulate risky pathogen research and zero steps taken to investigate the #OriginOfCovid
Listening and re-listening to the exchange between Senator Braun and Dr Fauci.

There is classified info all 100 senators voted to declassify. Fauci is Biden’s main advisor on this issue. Did he commit to advise the release of the classified info?
Can the public get clarity on one issue raised during the hearing?

Is Dr Fauci the main advisor to President Biden on the #OriginOfCovid

I believe it is very reasonable to say that Dr Fauci has very strong competing interests on this issue and should not be an advisor on it.
Are these redactions due to legal reasons? Is it out of the recipient’s control whether these are redacted or not? Considering many other emails from other senders in the FOIA’ed emails so far are not redacted.
Useful explainer here:
So it sounds like there was zero science under those redactions.

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6 Nov
Some experts have been misinformed that it took years to find the intermediate host of SARS1. Actually only took 2 months once the virus was isolated to find several infected animals at a market.

It has been ~2 years since SARS2 was detected - no intermediate host to be seen.
It is not normal that in 2019, with all of our greatly advanced tech, in a city housing the world's greatest expertise for tracking SARSrCoV outbreaks, it has been so challenging to find the proximal origin or intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2.
And we know that when SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan, the local institute of virology had been actively working with at least 9 of the closest virus relatives to SARS-CoV-2 - all collected from a South China mine where 6 miners had sickened with a mysterious pneumonia, half died.
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6 Nov
Why did I leave…
I regret to inform some that the photo of Vancouver above with 6 rainbows going in all directions is doctored. This type of rainbow phenomenon can’t happen.

The city is genuinely one of the most beautiful places to live though :)
But here is a photo of a real rainbowy rare weather phenomenon… “fire rainbows” seen in Iceland. Image
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5 Nov
A thread from Feb this year. We cannot afford to set a dangerous precedent showing that there is no way to hold accountable labs engaged in risky research that can accidentally lead to massive loss of life or bad actors intentionally creating bioweapons.
Yes, we need to immediately overhaul existing frameworks and oversight concerning risky pathogen research.

But we also need to show that the world has the will and capabilities to investigate mysterious pandemics.

Another of my threads from Dec 2020:
"Even some scientists who favor the natural origins theory argue for a fuller investigation because they believe it would set a precedent... Forgoing the inquiry would send a dangerous signal: Accountability isn’t guaranteed."
latimes.com/world-nation/s…
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5 Nov
If the problem with some lab leak proponents is that they’re “just asking questions”, then the problem with some natural spillover proponents is that they “don’t ask questions”.

From day 1, some believed SARS2 must’ve come from a market, everything else could not be questioned.
The amount of misinfo coming from both sides has been comparable, but in-field experts should be held to a higher standard because their word is taken at face value by journalists and the public.

Yet we have seen zero accountability for the misinformation spread by some experts.
Have any of the experts who cast the lab origin hypothesis as a conspiracy theory taken any responsibility for their anti-scientific statements?

Have any of the journalists misled by them gone back to these experts and said wtf?
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4 Nov
From an ongoing EcoHealth research grant FOIA'ed by @theintercept @fastlerner @MaraHvistendahl

"Our group has considerable expertise in interfacing with the appropriate NIH P3CO institutional review boards to review, revise and finalize research designs"
theintercept.com/document/2021/… Image
@theintercept @fastlerner @MaraHvistendahl "... that have the potential to modify pathogenesis or transmissibility in mammals."

Yea, I'm going to say at this point maybe their group has too much expertise in interfacing with the NIH P3CO institutional review boards.
Also, all of these guys are still collaborating with each other and EcoHealth on virus hunting and experimentation. At least one is on the @WHO SAGO committee. Image
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3 Nov
This needs to be said.

The virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 has been cultured/isolated/purified countless times by independent research groups across numerous countries over the past 2 years.
There’s probably someone in the Boston area handling a SARS-CoV-2 isolate from a patient at this very moment as I tweet.
No one has patented the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

There is no virus that meets Koch’s postulates, which were invented before discovery of viruses. (Even some bacteria haven’t met Koch’s postulates.) Yet so many viruses have been isolated and are real.
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