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el gato malo's avatar

they were working on inoculation strategies. some of it, particularly daszak's ideas about introducing GoF enhanced virus into wild bat colonies was barking mad, but it was about immunology, not weapons.

does not nesc make it any less dangerous, but that was the goal.

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JernauMoratGurgeh's avatar

That looked like one project, the COVID like virus in mice looked like another. The focus of the mouse project seemed different to my reading. They also wouldn’t be the first gamekeeper turned poacher…Daszak was notably upset when swine flu ended and his research slipped into obscurity once more.

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cmpalmer75's avatar

Hotez expressed a similar disappointment when SARS stopped spreading.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4873497/user-clip-hotez-coronavirus-vaccine-safety-testimony

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Michele's avatar

I'd put a big ol' "officially" in front of that thar immunology word, and then after that word weapons, a nice qualifying: (that we know of, yet).

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