Thread by @Ayjchan

So Wuhan scientists had collected and tested thousands of high risk animal and human samples from the wildlife trade spanning 8 countries in the years leading up to the pandemic.

They never reported finding a single SARS2-like virus in the wildlife trade.

https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1456984320036507648

Remember that this was pre-pandemic so there shouldn’t have been strong reasons to conceal the discovery of novel SARSrCoVs in the wildlife animals or traders sampled.

There are 2 options:

1. Despite this search, they found absolutely zero SARS2-like viruses or any SARSrCoV with a novel cleavage site across the wildlife trade, meaning that the only animals reportedly found with SARS2-like viruses (no cleavage site) are bats and pangolins.

Or…
2. The scientists did find SARS2-like viruses or SARSrCoVs with rare cleavage sites in the wildlife trade and didn’t tell the public about them, even after the pandemic broke out.

This international collaboration consisted of researchers whose mandate was to find the next pandemic virus before it finds us. Meaning they should’ve proudly shared the discovery of any novel pandemic potential pathogens.

It’s not like they themselves were an underground trafficking ring for dangerous pathogens.

The scientists actually derived international glory, publications, funding and career advancements from making these discoveries public.

Remember how many papers from various groups of scientists were solicited/published in top journals because of a *single* dataset showing a pangolin coronavirus with a similar spike RBD to SARS2? 😆 @Nature couldn’t get enough. It published 2 papers featuring the same dataset.

I’m not just asking questions. I want to see the data paid for with NIH money.

Does EcoHealth not even have an excel spreadsheet showing number of wildlife trade animals, species, location, year, type of test, test results for different pathogens?

https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1457130308952862722

Just went through the Ecohealth progress reports for Years 4 and 5 again - nothing reported on the thousands of animal samples taken from the wildlife trade across 8 countries.

theintercept.com/2021/10/21/vir…

Journalists might want to ask EcoHealth or the subcontractors from each of the 8 countries whether the 2016 *funded* plan for sending thousands of high risk animal samples from the wildlife trade to Wuhan was carried out and if records can be made public.

Journalists, if you need help finding the contacts from the 7 countries, check page 71 in the FOIA'ed emails here:
scribd.com/document/53702…