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Alina Chan Profile picture
@Ayjchan
Jun 11 • 11 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I hope the impending declassification of intel regarding sick WIV workers is as detailed as possible.

Whistleblower: "We were rock-solid confident that this was likely Covid-19 because they were working on advanced coronavirus research in the laboratory."
thetimes.co.uk/article/inside…
The #OriginOfCovid bill passed the House of Representatives unanimously this year 419:0.

ZERO reps felt that intel regarding the sick WIV and their exposure to coronavirus research should continue to remain classified.
hawley.senate.gov/hawley-covid-o…
The #OriginOfCovid bill specifically asks whether the sick WIV workers with covid-like symptoms in fall 2019 were exposed to coronavirus research.
What exactly is the threshold of pandemic-related deaths required for #OriginOfCovid intelligence to be declassified?
US partners of the Wuhan scientists said the Wuhan scientists had put furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses in 2019!
About a PLA scientist who patented a covid vaccine in Feb 2020, "Witnesses are said to have told the US investigation that Zhou fell from the roof of the Wuhan institute, although this has not been verified."
Just do the bipartisan Covid-19 commission already.
wsj.com/articles/u-s-s…
If the leaks are accurate, it sounds like a WIV collaborator in the US has decided to do the right thing and share knowledge about the risky SARS-like virus work in Wuhan. It also sounds like 3 sick WIV workers dealt with coronaviruses and a top scientist was murdered at the WIV.
All of this evidence should be declassified as much as possible. Any part that cannot be declassified should be reviewed by a bipartisan team of experts that can then release a public summary.
After more than 3 years of suffering through #OriginOfCovid drama, I'd really like to just call it and close the chapter on this.

But we need a credible, rigorous, evidence-based, bipartisan investigation.
What is at stake is not just the individual scientists, like myself, who have gotten sucked into the vortex of #OriginOfCovid

It's not only the more than 20 million excess deaths and millions more with long covid.

The stakes involve future pandemics, natural or lab-based.

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Alina Chan Profile picture
Jun 1
The 2018 Defuse proposal not only pitched creating SARS-like viruses with furin cleavage sites.

These scientists said they would build an app for warfighters to assess the risk of spillover of dangerous pathogens in Asia. Seriously.
documentcloud.org/documents/2106… Image
I'd like them to walk us through exactly what these warfighters wandering around in Asia are going to do if the app tells them that the bats around them have SARS-like viruses.
When I first read the defuse proposal, I had a hard time believing it was authentic. I later confirmed the furin cleavage site insertion plan with one of the authors of the proposal. But this stuff about the utility of their work in combatant command regions... Image
Read 7 tweets
Alina Chan Profile picture
May 29
A page from VIRAL. This is how seriously the Chinese authorities are taking the risks of pandemic viruses circulating in pangolins and other wildlife including raccoon dogs which are bred and sold for fur.

#OriginOfCovid Image
If there was any perception at all that pangolins and other wildlife pose a national (bio)security risk - the type that can lead to city-wide lockdowns and protests - it does not appear to be reflected in the pandemic response by Chinese authorities.
If the authorities even slightly believed that it was possible the pandemic virus had come from raccoon dogs or pangolins, I expect the farming and trading of these animals would've been completely shut down - no exceptions - in 2020.
Read 5 tweets
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May 6
Listened to a podcast where a disease ecologist said the words "jump" & "spillover" don't accurately describe the way animal pathogens emerge in humans.

I agree. To me, it's like a shots on goal scenario where a pathogen has to take numerous opportunities to cause an outbreak.
This is why I was perturbed by the abrupt appearance of a pandemic-ready SARS-like virus in a city with no history of SARS-like viruses in its people or markets.

Instead it had a unique lab studying how SARS-like viruses jump between species & infect humanized mice & civets.
With world-leading SARS virus hunters based in Wuhan, you'd think that they would know if SARS-like viruses were taking shots on goal in their city center.

Instead they used their own city's population as a negative control for exposure to SARS-like viruses. Zero shots on goal.
Read 6 tweets
Alina Chan Profile picture
May 5
One thing I learnt from the raccoon dog saga is how easy it is for this group of scientists to schedule meetings with the @WHO SAGO to present analysis based on unavailable/incomplete data which cannot be checked or reproduced by other scientists.

From @TheAtlantic article: Image
@WHO @TheAtlantic The single sample that caused so much hype in the media is indistinguishable from a sample that was cross-contaminated during processing, ie it doesn't tell us if that market surface had both raccoon dog and virus.

See @jbloom_lab analysis:
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Image
Despite how wobbly this data was, this group of scientists and virologists, including the Proximal Origin authors, ran to @WHO to present their analysis and told the press that the data indicated infected animals at the market.
zenodo.org/record/7754299 Image
Read 6 tweets
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May 4
This is the strongest evidence for a raccoon dog #OriginOfCovid?

"Débarre.. who co-authored the first report on the animal sequences says that the latest analysis could never have answered the question of which animal hosts shed the viral material"
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Huanan market map from the Chinese CDC paper.
Most Covid cases were on the west side of the market, which had total retail space >9 NFL fields. But cases did not correlate with sale of wildlife and do not even cluster around the wildlife stalls. Image
We also know from the Chinese CDC data that the areas associated with the raccoon dog stall were aggressively oversampled.

Market had 678 stalls.

About 1 in 6 of the total samples were taken from that 1 raccoon dog stall's areas in the market and warehouse.
Read 9 tweets
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Apr 27
Most interesting part of the @nytimes interview is when @dwallacewells asks Dr Anthony Fauci if it weighs on him at all that the pandemic possibly started in a lab doing the type of research he promoted for years. #OriginOfCovid

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
@nytimes @dwallacewells Dr Fauci responded that he sleeps fine and the suggestion that he needs to worry that NIH funded research that started the pandemic is troublesome to him. Image
Impressed @dwallacewells called out Dr Fauci #OriginOfCovid

At this part, I would've wanted to ask whether Dr Fauci was briefed on the defuse proposal by Ralph Baric in 2020 and what he thinks of the striking match between the proposed engineered viruses and the pandemic virus. Image
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