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DRAFT, PRE-DECISIONAL Background on Bat CoV Research at RML and recent media inquiries Background: Prompted by a recent article in the Daily Mail and a FOX News program video featuring a blog post on the White Coast Waste (WCW) Project website, Kathryn has reached out for additional information about an incident and documents related to Dr. Munster's research at RML. There are many confusing media statements on the issue, as well as the vague request from Kathryn. To help clarify the facts, please see information below. Proposal: Dr. Tabak to have a call with Kathryn to talk through some of the misinformation. Please see high level points here and additional background below. © WIV-1 the virus studied at RML in 2016 and published in 2018 is not a progenitor to. SARS-CoV-2. © WIV-1is a naturally occurring bat coronavirus and is named WIV-1 because scientists at WIV were the first to discover and characterize the virus. © RML researchers did not receive the virus or bats from WIV. * RML followed standard procedures to procure the bats for research and used a USDA approved licensed dealer. FPsBackground: © RML has an over 100-year history studying emerging infectious diseases, pandemics including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, bubonic plague, chronic wasting disease, Ebola, Zika, and yellow fever. e ABSL-4 facility was eonstrueted-completed at RML in 2008 (under President Bush) and put into service in 2009.I (under President Bush). Commented [B[1]: I believe 2009 is more © These are the safest and most strictly regulated infectious disease facilities for appropriate here, since construction was completed in high sence:paifiopens: 2008, but initial facility approval received in 2009 and consequence pathogens. . . the first studies began in late 2009/early 2010. © BSL-4s undergo the highest levels of scrutiny on research, safety, security, and Brose, Megan (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] personnel reliability. 2023-11-27 12:32:00 * Why Research Coronaviruses (CoV) at RML? Commented [SS([2R1]: Edits to address for © CoV are responsible for many common colds, but in the 21st century, they have accuracy caused 3 very-serious and deadly -world-wide-pandemies-outbreaks -- the 2003 Selgrade, Sara (NIH/NIAID) [E] SARS-1 pandemic (SARS-CoV-1), the 2013 MERS outbreak (MERS-CoV), and Ue EPUB BED the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic (SARS-CoV-2). o Many CoV use_live in bats as a seser+eir-natural host -- often the bats have limited to no signs of disease caused byar the infection.