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TWiV 615: Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance

MicrobeTV · 181K views · 2020-05-19 · 35:53

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An episode of This Week in Virology in which Vincent Racaniello interviews Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance about virus spillover, bats and wildlife sampling. It was recorded in 2020 during the early pandemic.

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HN uses it mainly as a source in COVID origin debates, quoting what Daszak says about manipulating coronaviruses in the lab.

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PicassoCTs · 2021-09 · Criticism

Liaison for the Wuhan Virology Institute and later WHO Investigator into his own lab, in his own words, 1 year pre Covid outbreak : [VIDEO] But honestly, it does not matter. What matters is that there is a whole culture who allows shutting down narratives, as it pleases for whatever failed reflexes control it. That culture has to go. Right, Left and center.

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novaRom · 2021-09 · Reference

December 9, 2019 Interviewer: You say these are diverse coronaviruses and you can’t vaccinate against them, and no anti-virals — so what do we do? Daszak: Well I think…coronaviruses — you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happen with coronavirus, in zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work a lot with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert into the backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab. So you can get more predictive when you find a sequence. You’ve got this diversity. Now the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s insert some of these other things and get a better vaccine. source: [VIDEO] more info: [LINK]

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PicassoCTs · 2021-08 · Criticism

How about the western liason to the whole affair have his say in his own words - pre-covid out-break? [VIDEO]

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