And Dr Fauci said in 2021 he was "not convinced" the virus originated naturally. That was a shift from a year earlier, when he thought it most likely Covid had spread from animals to humans. bbc.com/news/world-asi… China has hit back at suggestions the virus may have escaped from a laboratory by calling it a smear. State media have consistently accused the US government and Western media of spreading rumours about the source of the pandemic.

Listings of WHO's response to COVID-19

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Wat staat hier🤔: The Pandemic Supply Chain Network (PSCN) created by WHO, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, held its first meeting.👇
who.int/news/item/29-0… Snapt u het? #missie 👇

The mission of PSCN is “to create and manage a market network allowing for WHO and private sector partners to access any supply chain functionality and asset from end-to-end anywhere in the world at any scale”.

who.int/docs/default-s… Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Routes of transmission
COVID-19 is transmitted via droplets and fomites during close unprotected contact between an infector and infectee. Airborne spread has not been reported for COVID-19 and it is not believed to be a major driver of transmission based on available evidence;

Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications nature.com/articles/s4159… During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway.

Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology - United States Department of State

The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus—known as SARS-CoV-2—was transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined 2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-act… whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch scientists hidden away in a top-security laboratory are seeking to create mutant flu viruses, dangerous work designed to prepare the world for a lethal pandemic by beating nature to it. reuters.com/article/us-bir… Doctors and nurses attend a training course for the treatment of the H7N9 virus at a hospital, where a H7N9 patient is being treated, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in this April 5, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Chance Chan/Files

aim to genetically modify the virus to see what it needs to give it more of a deadly pandemic kick. That could make it more virulent more pathogenic and more transmissible capable of passing easily in droplets through the air from one mammal to another. reuters.com/article/us-bir… The highest level, BSL4, requires military guard and applies to pathogens for which there are no preventives or treatments.

Scientists to make mutant forms of new bird flu to assess risk reut.rs/15Md94V LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are to create mutant forms of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has emerged in China so they can gauge the risk of it becoming a lethal human pandemic. 2013 👇 The genetic modification work will to result in highly transmissible and deadly forms of H7N9 being made in several high security laboratories around the world, but it is vital to prepare for the threat, the scientists say.

Proponents of Kawaoka+Fouchier experiments: these answered the question of how a virus like H5N1 could possibly become airborne in humans allowed other researchers to develop vaccines and therapeutics which specifically targeted these amino acid changes, profilbaru.com/article/Gain-o… and also demonstrated that there was a linkage between transmissibility in avian viruses and lethality: while the virus had become more transmissible, it had also become significantly less deadly.

Antibody landscapes after influenza virus infection or vaccination by Ron Foucier ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Much of the global burden of infectious disease today is caused by antigenically variable pathogens, which escape immunity induced by prior infection or vaccination by changing the molecular structure recognized by #antibodies

I was intrigued,” says Ron Fouchier, in his rich, Dutch-accented English, “in how little things could kill large animals and humans

Gain-of-Function Mutation Experiments Explained freethink.com/health/gain-of… This fascination led the silver-haired virologist to venture into controversial gain-of-function mutation research — work by scientists that adds abilities to pathogens, including experiments that focus on SARS and MERS, the coronavirus cousins of the COVID-19 agent.

Gain-of-function experiments: time for a real debate - PubMed

According to the WHO, dual use research of concern (DURC) is "life sciences research that is intended for benefit, but which might easily be misapplied to do harm".

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25482289/ R.A.M.F. = Ron Foucier receives research support for gain-of-function research from US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the European Union.