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I was really impressed with the detective work he's put in. Everything he says about the Dec 8th case fits with what we experienced in Wuhan on the WHO trip -- there were a cluster of early cases coming into hospitals in late December and clinicians worked back to the presumed date of onset.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's caused by bat coronavirus, something that we've been working on for over 20 years in China. So, I do have some level of expertise that is going to be valuable to that team.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's official title is a' joint study,' which is very important... because if it's a joint study, it's a collaborative study between the WHO and the member state China. The public looked at this as an investigation from the start, and I think that was a mistake.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think WHO should have spoken out more forcefully and said we are not going to do a forensic investigation of a lab in China as part of this work, if you look at the way that they reported on that( lab leak theory), they classified it as' extremely unlikely.' For us to be able to take that off the table, it needs to be studied properly. It needs to be studied thoroughly.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Right. If we want to see information shared from China about what went on with the lab, we need Phase 2 to begin very rapidly.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Well, I think that it needs to follow the evidence, if there's definitive evidence of the lab leak, then that needs to be investigated. There is none yet.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think that's right. There's not been a definitive investigation of the lab-leak theory, will there be?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
From my perspective, your comments are brave, and coming from your trusted voice, will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus's origins.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It's not a complete throwing out of that hypothesis, it's a conclusion that it's extremely unlikely and that there is a much more likely hypothesis out there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Even SARS, even Ebola, we have some good ideas, but no one knows, hIV: we don’t know the exact circumstances.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The new coronavirus matched a sample taken from a horseshoe bat in a cave in Yunnan in 2013, it was 96.2 % identical.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is highly likely that an intermediate animal host was involved and transmitted the virus to humans, accounting for the 3.8 % difference in genome.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We( have) collected more than 15,000 bat samples, which led to the identification of around 500 new coronaviruses.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We usually choose to work with the best labs in the country and if there aren't any, we build up local capacity.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We also carry out oral and faecal swabs and gather droppings.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
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