Edward C. Holmes

Although CGTN is a propaganda organ for the Chinese government, what she said rang true to me.

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NO country would have imposed a lockdown faster than China.

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The mistake - which was understandable - is that they (China) assumed that was SARS and hence would be relatively easy to contain as they just had to quarantine the symptomatic cases.

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"Henceforth, those who would maintain that the Covid-19 pandemic arose from zoonotic transfer need to explain precisely why this more parsimonious account is wrong before asserting that their evidence is persuasive, most especially when, as we also show, there are puzzling errors in their use of evidence." Is this us?

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"To remedy the problem, the researchers are developing their own vaccine, produced by Immunor AS, a Norwegian pharmaceutical company led by Mr Sorensen".

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Plenty of reasons why traffic could have increased: perhaps they had a special offer at the wet market?

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I'm really struggling to understand why someone would "put" a furin site into a random bat virus they had not previously sequenced and published.

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We further found that the infected pangolins showed similar CT scans with COVID-19 patients (please see the attachment, a and b are virus-positive pangolins, while c is virus-negative).

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Also, many of the points are stupid/wrong: (i) why anyone would have a pangolin virus in the lab is beyond me and obviously idiotic.

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How can Liu et al. have possibly known what the human RBD would have looked like? https://virological.org/t/ncov-2019-spike-protein-receptor-binding-domain-shares-high-amino-acid-identity-with-a-coronavirus-recovered-from-a-pangolin-viral-metagenomic-dataset/362

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And if we except that it suggests that the WIV do not have other bat viruses that could have led to SARS-CoV-2 through experimental manipulation.

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Feb 9 from Jeremy, sent to all "We now have (and we will get more) the pangolin data (Eddie has) we think we cantie this up even tighter with the next iteration and make a conclusive statement which will then be the go to scientific statement to refer to.Eddie and I have just come off a call with the National Academy of Medicine in the US - who the White House has asked to produce a report on this...."

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.111 · original PDF · in context

Kristian contacts me to say that he has spotted some strange things in the issue - specifically the furin cleavage site and restriction sites - that we was concerned about.

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

In early Feb we had spotted some features in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that at the time appeared unusual - particularly the furin cleavage site and the receptor binding domain. 2.

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

It is worth pointing out that the senior author on our paper - Bob Garry - has published a significant number of papers on coronaviruses, including on the SARS spike protein, and even commented on this on the virological.org website prior to the call taking place (https://virological.org/t/analysis-ofwuhan-coronavirus-deja-vu/357).

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

Importantly, our study was an evolutionary study based on genomic information, which is the only way to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2 - we believe all the authors on our paper have a strong demonstrated record in answering exactly those types of questions for a multitude of viruses. 3.

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

We have attached our first draft of what would eventually become our paper from Feb 7, which was circulated to everyone on the call.

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

This was critical and as Eddie wrote in an email to everyone on the call on Feb 9th: "Personally, with the pangolin virus possessing 6/6 key sites in the receptor binding domain, I am in favour of the natural evolution theory." and Rndrew Rambaut replied to this stating: "I am of the view that the natural selection hypothesis is the most likely (specifically the non-bat reservoir).

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

The truth is that we had a range of views among us, our paper included the pangolin data that was not available at the time of the call, and we circulated drafts of our document to everyone. 7.

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

Indeed, the great irony is that 99.9% of the feedback we have received on our paper - including death threats - are people accusing us of dismissing the lab escape theory too quickly.

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.149 · original PDF · in context

The email makes several serious allegations, including details about a confidential and private meeting involving senior US andUK officials/scientists on a topic that is highly sensitive but ultimately led to our "Proximal Origins" paper that wesubmitted to Nature some months ago.

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.120 · original PDF · in context

HKU-1) more often have furin sites and seem to be more often rodent associated.

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This is good news because it means that the virus will find it just a bit harder to 'escape' from any future vaccines or antiviral drugs if and when they are developed".

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On that subject the following..."Are mouse and cat the missing link in the COVID-19 outbreaks in seafood markets?"...has just come up on bioRxiv.

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@Kristian Andersen Do you believe the data that "bat SARSr-CoV RBDs showed a higher binding affinity to human ACE2 than to R. sinicus ACE2s".

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Dear Edwards, It would be appreciated if you would help me with the following questions on viral evolution.

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Tommy Lam says he has more sero-positive pangolins.

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Raccoon dogs in the market would be so simple....yes, the vaccine trial is mad.

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This is crap: "This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e.,more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in alaboratory--for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site".

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We might not be able to find the intermediate host.

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I would certainly like to take the opportunity to respond to some of the nonsense written about the pangolin viruses.

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.272 · original PDF · in context

One is ~93% similarto SARS-CoV-2 and some of them are related to pangolin-derived CoVs.

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"Similarly, no mention is made by officials of a so-called laboratory leak, or that the virus was man-made, as somecritics, including top US officials, have claimed without evidence."

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I can't see usrtk.org going much better than "Emails reveal proximal origins authors'lamentable use of puns".

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> Through the grape vine I've heard that the South Africans are claiming their lineage is "associated with diseasein younger persons".

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For the Christmas card I would replace the alpha helices with strings of face masks.

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A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease inChina. _Nature_ 579, 265-269 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2008-3We request all correspondence about the above projects, *with the exception of correspondence of peer-reviewers and editors of the above-named scientific journals*, held by The University of Sydney that reflect communications -to or from Professor Holmes - including written correspondence, emails, email attachments, CC and BCC.The time period covered by this request is from March 1, 2019 to December 2, 2020.

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Please narrow the search results to exclude any published papers, organizational newsletters or other widely available published materials."I know it is a very busy time for you as you return from your month of leave, but to help the University meet its tight legal obligations under the NSW GIPA Act, I would appreciate it very much if you could conduct comprehensivesearches for the requested information and provide any relevant correspondence to me by *Friday 22 January*.

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So much of the lab origin stuff is predicted on the idea that RaTG13 is the direct ancestor of SC2, which is obviously nonsense.

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GD pangolin-CoV one is actually more genetic distant to human WH1 than than GX pangolin-CoV does.

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This outbreak highlights that cold-chain food contamination may be responsible for the resurgence in Beijing.

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It is worth mentioning that there were internationally and domestically imported seafoodon sale in the Huanan seafood market before it was closed on January 1, 2020.

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.426 · original PDF · in context

If she wants to moan it should be to the China CDC who had the data earlier and did nothing.

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This leads me to think that the officials must have denied that the species I photographed were ever in the market but that my crappy photos prove otherwise.

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We always knew that culturing prototype viruses in "plain" Vero cells could lead to the selection of furin cleavage site deletion mutants, but this was rarely a problem in practice, and could be avoided altogether by using Vero-TMPRSS2.However, with B1.351 (and to an extent B1.1.7 - we don't yet know about P.1) the problem has become way worse.

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Tedros could appoint a new team of highly qualified international experts, including forensic specialists, to investigate the laboratory-leak hypothesis, and forcefully insist that China not standin its way".

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Colleague just found an alpha coronavirus in a pangolin so clearly these animals are highly susceptible. [shared file(s): pangolin
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Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers working on coronaviruses were hospitalised with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in early November 2019 in what US officials suspect could have been the first cluster.

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Their illness was consistent with both COVID-19 and influenza and, in his personal assessment, was the likely cause of the outbreak.THEAUSTRALIAN.COM.AU12:05Wuhan Institute of Virology 'highly probably' the source of COVID-19 The former lead investigator who spearheaded a taskforce for the US government into the origins of COVID-19 hasdeclared the virus may have been the result of work done for a biological weapons program in Wuhan.

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Her view was that it was not unusual and she did not indicate any employees had beenhospitalised.The US State Department declassified intelligence in a statement dated January 15, 2021, where it was first revealed that Wuhan Institute of Virology workers had fallen sick in the autumn of 2019.At the time, the information was dismissed by critics, as secretary of state Mike Pompeo was hitting out at China onhis way out of office.

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Your statement is in right now, the extra photos are not, but reference to your paper is there.

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Confidentially, the fact that China side has fought tooth and nail to remove as much of this stuff about live mammals at Huanan as possible, tells methey know this is the likely pathway.

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Also spoke to my FBI buddies and will get videos date stamped and geocoding checked etc. might do some stuff with tile measurementsas well.

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So, these animals have not been tested; (ii) he said that the WIV staff came across as totally open and honest.

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If those two facts are true then the WIV cannot be the source ofSARS-CoV-2.

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If these facts are not true then the scientists at WIV are lying.

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If the State Dept/Security services have evidence of nefarious activities at the WIV then they should publishit.

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"The other bigger market owned by the family that owns Huanan is interesting.

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I was able to get in once and speak with a fewvendors who had moved there from Huanan, but they didn't want to say much since I'm American.

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Had you ever heard about the Huanan owner at all?

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Know anyone expert in the activities inthose zones?If it was pangolins infected by bats, there are lots of these little "holding pens" on the pangolin underground railroadin China, often mixed in with other wildlife breeding.

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I've got a colleague to do all these, although I now sort of regret not getting involved because I think a Borat-style fake whistleblower about the WIV could have been fun.

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This was from one of his earlier emails "If it was pangolins infected by bats, there are lots of these little "holdingpens" on the pangolin underground railroad in China, often mixed in with other wildlife breeding.

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Everyone around that we spoke with knew they kept pangolins there."

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These places are potentially as or more dangerous for spreading animal disease than wet markets if there is that big a mix of wildlife present, potentiallydiseased wildlife since they've been rescued.

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This place is within the park, as is that wildlife zoo [connected to thenotorious tiger farm in Guangxi], and all overseen by the Hubei Provincial Forestry Bureau.Statement from 2012: http://lyj.hubei.gov.cn/jhyjzx/kpyd/201912/t20191210_1731975.shtml The Provincial Wildlife Rescue Center is located in the picturesque and beautiful Wuhan Jiufeng National Forest Park.

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The journo is finding that this whole wildlife industry is run by some very dodgy people "The pangolins often end up at these places then are "transferred" out to "licensed breeders" who often really haveno reason to have pangolins, at least in Guangxi and one other provincial rescue center I know that's been looked into by NGOs here.I keep coming up with potentially problematic people in the layers around this park/wildlife zoo/rescue center.

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Appears there were people out there selling live pangolin in 2018 and were busted, but only got suspended sentences and minimal fines rangingfrom $500 USD and below. https://www.sohu.com/a/332872438_695387 Would need to Google translate it.

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Bats carrying coronavirus were more common in Hubei than assumed according to a dissertation paper of a student of ShiZhengli's that I've seen.

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The "oversight" committee is well named them.

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I had at chat with the genomics people here yesterday and they said that most of the people who are coming into our hotel quarantine system from India have B.1.1.7.

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I've been able to document four mink farms in Hubei, and a musk rat farm Ithought that was mink [closed Jan 17, 2020, mysteriously].On another couple of notes - there is a pangolin breeding operation just two hours drive north of Wuhan.

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May be nothing though.In Yunnan I've been able to document 16 pangolin breeding operations that were active before the outbreak.

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There are a couple that are in or close to Yongde County which supplied bamboo rat meat to the Huanan market, according to the China-WHO study report.

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Changli County was once awarded thetitles of "China Fur Industry Base" and "Hometown of Racoon Raising Dogs" by* the Specialty Products Society ofthe Chinese Agricultural Society.

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Others may focus specifically on mink, all these different pangolin farms, etc.*I am looking for someone who could comment on why it would be important for this person to speak to the media orat least have a more public inquiry into his activities.* He's basically being shielded by the government from speaking with the press.

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Perhaps we could have an annual Zoonot award for strenuous supporting over the year.

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"Since a coronavirus variant with great similarity to SARS-CoV-2 was also found in a pangolin, Chinese researchers proposed that this armadillo could be an intermediate host (*27*).

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But how is the virus supposed to get from the bats that catch their food - insects and spiders - in flight at night into the pangolin, whose natural home is Malaysia, and from there into the human lungs?

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The claim that our paper ispolitical is obviously stupid.

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Daszak is a total charlatan BUT I'd certain he would have known about what was being done at WIV and it talking tohim I'm 100% certain he has no knowledge of anything of note at the WIV.

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I wish more people@would speak out against the lab leak bs here -relman and ebright have no data or analysis to add, but they're talking with press@every day & that story is tooenticing for reporters to resist at the moment"

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Zhengli's doing the right thing - we're acting just likewe were when the NIH grant was up and running, but if they decided not to answer my emails or wechats, we've gotno leverage.

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.756 · original PDF · in context

"No evidence so far indicate that the WIV has the virus in storage."

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There has been huge effort on environments(wet market in Wuhan) and wild-life animals (all over China, including bats and pangolines).

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I myself is involved inthese some of the work (one with pangoline and the other with the Gamey taste animals), but nothing relavent isfound at this stage.

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Other taxa have differentpatterns, in Hipposiderids, especially larger species males may fight and they have enlarged glands and areexceedingly aggressive (normally on the face, though some other genera within Hipposideridae have them elsewhere-such as the chest).

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"The story on "the boss" of Huanan and the other market is with the Guardian editors.

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That "wildlife rescue center" also does hybridization experiments according to a Xinhua story I found, with 30 hybridssuccessful, though the only ones it mentioned were ducks.Back to your question ...Huanan didn't seem terribly huge compared to those I've seen in Guangdong.

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There were no live mammals there when I went but a ladyselling live turtles, who had moved from Huanan, did talk to me for a few minutes until she started blaming the USmilitary for the outbreak ...Have been trying to find out what's happened with the big wildlife market in Qingyuan, Guangdong.

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It was rumored to berelocated but ... a report from July last year debunked that: https://xw.qq.com/cmsid/20200722A0Z9IO00http://www.gdqy.gov.cn/xxgk/zzjg/zfjg/qysscjdglj/xxgk/tablyjgk/content/post_1288169.htmlPeter told me that people on the ground in Wuhan were seeing live wildlife at Huanan market for years, so confirms your finding, and up through 2019.

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Going to try to visit several mink farms in Hubei and that one place that has a pangolin license.

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"There are around five of them that I'd like to check out [one area has two, and that area supplied Huanan market; another has one, also an area supplying the market], and they were the only ones that popped up in Hubei in acommercial registry search.

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Others just hang upthough.The Humane Society International inspections of mink and other fur facilities in the northeast showed that none there were tested and there were no biosecurity measures in place, their researchers were just able to walk right inand talk to the breeders.

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Having no PCR/antibody positives at the WIV and they are accused of lying, having n = 1 caseat WIV then that would be patient zero.

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If 3 staff were sick enough to go to hospital then any outbreak at WIV must have been substantial.

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All this press and there has not been a SINGLE PIECE of new evidence for the lab leak.

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American scientists caught in Wuhan web of intrigue Senior US personnel have been involved with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, even visiting coronavirus research labs, an investigation by The Australian has revealed.

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Picture: AFPInside America's highly secretive biological research site at Fort Detrick, Maryland, are biosafety level-four laboratories.Soldiers guard the premises that house America's bio-defence agency, the US Army Medical Research Institute ofInfectious Diseases.

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It's the last place on Earth you would expect to have developed ties with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers who, in turn, are engaging in secret Chinese military activity.An investigation by The Australian has revealed senior personnel at USAMRIID -- its chief science officer, alaboratory director, a former commander and a research contractor -- have been involved with the Wuhan Instituteof Virology, even visiting its laboratories where risky research on coronaviruses took place.

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.870 · original PDF · in context

China's attempts to deflect attention from the Wuhan laboratory by claiming Covid-19 arrived in the city through frozen food or originated in a US military laboratory have been denounced as false conspiracy theories.Revelations about US scientific links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology feature in an upcoming investigative book onthe origins of Covid-19, What Really Happened In Wuhan, to be published by HarperCollins.

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They include the extentof the scientific community's ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which, according to declassified intelligence released by the US, was conducting secret projects for the Chinese military.

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci has come under pressure for providing$US13m in funding to a not-for-profit organisation, EcoHealth, with $US598,500 funnelled through to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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Bavari said he didn't go into the BSL-4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was not open at the time of his 2015 visit, butventured inside the lower-security, level-three laboratory where Shi was conducting coronavirus research.

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Asked about the biosafety standards inside the laboratory, Bavari said: "Oh, my God, that was like seven years ago,so I don't remember a darn thing.

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She gave a coronavirus presentation, according toanother conference participant, who described her as friendly and sociable.A week later, on September 12, the Wuhan Institute of Virology virus database was taken offline.

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Shi has claimed the virus database was taken offline after 3000 hackingattempts.Last Friday, the Wuhan Institute of Virology disclosed the genomic sequences of eight new viruses that were the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eight and ninth genetically closest viruses to SARS-CoV-2.

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Stanford University professor David Relman, who also attended this conference, said they visited the newly built BSL-4 laboratory but it "was not yet active, and there were no experiments taking place with BL3/BL4agents"."These discussions were cordial and useful insofar as they provided an opportunity to develop at least somesuperficial working relationships," Relman said.

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Qiu, her husband Kedin Cheng and her students from China were removed from Canada's only BSL-4 laboratory amid an official investigation.

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It was reported that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had requested the shipment.Chemical and biological warfare specialist Dany Shoham, from the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, wrotean article claiming Qiu had made at least five trips over the academic year 2017-18 alone to the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Qiu had also done joint research with USAMRIID on ebola, which was received by Nature in October 2018.Bavari denied there was any connection between USAMRIID and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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"US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, where I was the chief science officer there, has no connection whatsoeverto Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other institute in China," Bavari said.

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They're just two different things."He also played down the visits by other researchers to the Wuhan Institute of Virology."So at the institute they may have friends there, OK, they're Chinese, so absolutely, that (visits) had happened, Ihave no doubt," he said.

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Asked about this, Bavari said he was not aware the Wuhan Institute of Virology had lodged the patent forRemdesivir.USAMRIID did not respond to requests for comment.

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This statement "In particular, we know from her published work that Shi had successfully been inserting furin cleavage sites into viruses to make them more infective" strikes me a bare-faced lie.

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He even answered his own question by mentioned the pangolin papers which she claims are dodgy.

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She claims that the pangolin virus may have been contracted from their smugglers.

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So, in 2019 before the pandemic started smugglers in southern China in were infected by a virus that is related to, but not the same as, SARS-CoV-2, and then infected pangolins.

Slack / Private Message Drop, p.920 · original PDF · in context

Just watched it - what he says about our paper is pure slander.

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It would be, although the idea that no one said a single word about this on public and social media until December perhaps argues against.

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The lab leak was not the big thing when he wrote the DT letter Since it has blown up he has tried to distance him from Shi et al He clearly thinks silence works

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