Thread by @Ayjchan

Would it be accurate to say that when a new SARSrCoV with roots in S China/SE Asia with a new FCS emerged in Wuhan, EcoHealth knew 1000s samples had been sent over years frm S China/SE Asia to Wuhan scientists who had planned to detect new FCSs for engineering into new SARSrCoVs?

And the organization decided not to say anything about this knowledge until their emails and documents were either leaked or successfully FOIA’ed from recipients almost 2 years post-outbreak?

Based on this knowledge, it’s more than reasonable to think SARS2 might’ve leaked from a lab.

But EcoHealth president & friends insisted on calling lab leak a conspiracy theory.

Doesn’t that mean you think that you + your research collaborators are all pandemic conspirators?

Who knows what we are going to see next in future FOIA’ed documents. Might be time to start a bingo card for things EcoHealth might not want the public to know about their SARS-like virus research in the years leading up to the pandemic.

So far we got:

1. Finding novel rare cleavage sites to put in novel low risk SARS-like viruses

2. Collecting thousands of high risk animal and human samples from the wildlife trade in 8 countries

3. Infecting humanized mice, civets and bats with SARS-like viruses in the lab

4. Conducting live SARS-like virus work at BSL2

5. Making chimeric viruses using human pathogen MERS-CoV

6. Not always wearing full personal protective equipment while sampling pathogens from wild animals