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1. 2020-09-27 06:28 Andrew Rambaut open
   But then there was this bit of the speech: > But even as we strive for a vaccine, we must never cut corners, slim down the trials or sacrifice safety to speed. Because it would be an absolute tragedy if in our eagerness, we were to boost the nutjobs - the anti vaxxers,dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millionsof lives.
2. 2020-09-27 06:28 Andrew Rambaut open
   Probably the first time 'nutjobs' has been used in a speech to the UNGA.
3. 2020-09-27 06:30 Andrew Rambaut open
   But then there was this bit: > Our first aim should be to stop a new disease before it starts. About 60 percent of the pathogens circulating inthe human population originated in animals and leapt from one species to the other in a "zoonotic" transmission. The world could seek to minimise the danger by forging a global network of zoonotic research hubs, charged withspotting dangerous animal pathogens that may cross the species barrier and infect human beings.Which I imagine is the whole Cameron/Illumina/GVP thing
4. 2020-09-27 06:38 Robert F. Garry open
   For sure Trump stands head and shoulders above Boris on the nutjob scale. Setting up "zoonotic research hubs" would be vastly superior to GVP if done correctly. GVP is just a money grab.
5. 2020-09-27 06:45 Robert F. Garry
   https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/World-needs-to-know-origins-of-COVID-19-Australia-PM-tells-UN
6. 2020-09-27 06:49 Robert F. Garry open
   I hope he's talking about which bat species carries the direct progenitor...

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