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Regarding intel on the sick WIV workers, there are many questions.

Why is this still classified 3+ years after the pandemic started?

Were these details shared across all IC agencies that assessed #OriginOfCovid in 2021? What about in 2023? If so, which experts were consulted?
Much of the info and data on #OriginOfCovid - early cases, market animals, lab viruses - is incomplete and sometimes clearly biased or suppressed in some way.

Even if the intel is incomplete, it would help if as much detail as possible is declassified.
The Covid-19 Origin Act of 2023 that was signed by President Biden specifically asked for the declassification of the names and symptoms (date of onset) of the sick WIV workers and how they were involved in or exposed to coronavirus research.
congress.gov/118/plaws/publ…
To put this in context, Chinese investigators are being rebuked by scientists & WHO for sitting on negative, biased market data for 3 years - that data did not point to an infected animal at the market, and the Chinese scientists are still being scolded for not sharing it sooner.
If there are people who are in possession of info or even documents relating to possible early cases of Covid-19 - no matter how incomplete - should this not be shared with the public immediately at this point?
If everyone sat on their individual pieces of #OriginOfCovid info based on the reasoning that their piece is incomplete, biased, or negative, then there would be zero available data or info to date.

This is the reality of investigating how the pandemic started.

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Jun 11
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.
Read 11 tweets
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
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
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
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
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.
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