Stuart Neil’s day job keeps him pretty occupied.
He shot back: “How dare you suggest that because I do not share your view of the origins of this virus I am somehow dismissive of the impact of this virus on people.” Backing the headline were documents that DRASTIC said came from the unidentified whistle-blower. They showed that EcoHealth Alliance in 2018 applied for a federal grant to study bat coronaviruses with three other US research groups, a team from Duke-NUS in Singapore, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
But the documents seen against the backdrop of a pandemic caused by a new bat coronavirus first identified in Wuhan include a proposal that surprised even dedicated zoonati like Stuart Neil.Specifically, that proposal was to introduce a special feature to bat coronaviruses that helps them invade cells.
“Imagine if the public had this info in Jan 2020,” said Chan on Twitter, a platform where she pushes for a full investigation into the lab-leak hypothesis. “It might have changed how the entire world responded to the outbreak when it was still possible to contain,” she said.Neil at King’s College said he was taken aback that the 2018 proposal had only just come to light, but it doesn’t provide any evidence to show the Covid-19 virus was engineered in a lab.
One of them was Linfa Wang, a professor of emerging infectious diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, who was named in the coronavirus proposal to the US defence agency DARPA.call, he acknowledged being part of the proposal, but said the Sars-CoV-2 virus was born in nature, not a lab. Alina Chan, also on the panel, was more pointed: “We cannot rule out a lab origin right now, it’s very fully on the table.”
He added that it was “staggeringly inept” for Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, and the scientists involved in the DARPA application to not have made it public “when everyone is looking for transparency”.In the hunt for the origins of a virus that has been blamed for the deaths of millions of people, transparency remains in short supply.
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