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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.506 [SLACK_000720] · slack_pm:msg:05290

Date: 2021-02-10 14:16
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: WHO and international investigation

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-department-who-expert-clash-on-coronavirus-origin-investigation/ar-BB1 dzAG7"But WHO expert Peter Daszak later pushed back on the statement, saying that President Joe Biden "has to look tough on China." "Please don't rely too much on US intel: increasingly disengaged under Trump & frankly wrong on many aspects," Daszak tweeted. He continued: "I'm disappointed that a statement came out that might undermine the veracity of this work even before the report is released. Again - as the sole US citizen on this team, I'm happy to talk w/ White House re findings of @WHO mission."

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2021-02-10 14:13 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00375-7 "Scientists say the WHO team's advice to broaden the search for the virus origin beyond China is justified, especially given f*resh reports of coronaviruses closely related toSARS-CoV-2 found in bats in Japan, Cambodia and Thailand."*
2021-02-10 14:16 Robert F. Garry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/state-department-who-expert-clash-on-coronavirus-origin-investigation/ar-BB1 dzAG7"But WHO expert Peter Daszak later pushed back on the statement, saying that President Joe Biden "has to look tough on China." "Please don't rely too much on US intel: increasingly disengaged under Trump & frankly wrong on many aspects," Daszak tweeted. He continued: "I'm disappointed that a statement came out that might undermine the veracity of this work even before the report is released. Again - as the sole US citizen on this team, I'm happy to talk w/ White House re findings of @WHO mission."
2021-02-10 14:31 Edward C. Holmes open

Interesting comments from Linfa. The state department have nothing, clearly. Posturing.
2021-02-10 15:12 Robert F. Garry open

Agree state department in a tough spot so they are indeed posturing. Dazak - if I may be so bold - is way out of his lane and in danger of further damaging the WHO effort, which was far from perfect. Here he writes, "Please don't rely too much on US intel: increasingly disengaged under Trump & frankly wrong on many aspects," Daszak tweeted." I do not believe that Daszak is an expert on US Intelligence [any form of intelligence?]. As forLin-fa I'd like to know where else his ACE2BOB assay is taking him....no mention of it in the WHO Briefing.
2021-02-10 15:19 Robert F. Garry open

I think Lin-Fa's on to something too...

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