BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION Awarded Grants, Communications: Guardian News & Media, United Nations Office, Science Museum, EurActiv, Financial Times, The Conversation, National Public Radio, Pulitzer Centre, Al Jazeera
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WEF "Young Leaders"

In 2016, the WEF announced the opening of its new Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. To "serve as a platform for interaction, insight and impact on the scientific & technological changes that are changing the way we live, work and relate to one another"

In 2017 the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a global initiative "to fight epidemics", was launched at WEF in Davos. The internationally funded initiative aims at securing vaccine supplies for global emergencies and pandemics, and to "research new vaccines"

CEPI (WEF): The project is funded by private and governmental donors, with an initial investment of US$460m from the governments of Germany, Japan and Norway, plus the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.

Between January 21–24 2020, at the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, CEPI met with leaders from Moderna to establish plans for a COVID-19 vaccine at the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM  Davos gathering. The WHO declared a global health emergency 6 days later..

GAVI: "In 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, with an initial pledge of $750 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
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"In 2018, we announced that Gavi became the first international non-profit organization to partner with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution – a collaboration set to maximize emerging technologies to accelerate Gavi’s impact globally."

"Gavi’s impact draws on the strengths of its core partners, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"
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2015: "To examine the emergence potential (the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein -from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats"
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""Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone."

"Wild-type SARS-CoV (Urbani), mouse-adapted SARS-CoV (MA15) and chimeric SARS-like CoVs were cultured on Vero E6 cells (👉obtained from United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases👈)"

"experiments were similar to those using an HIV-based pseudovirus, prepared as previously described10, and examined on HeLa cells (👉Wuhan Institute of Virology👈)

"👉Human lungs for HAE cultures were procured under University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institutional Review Board–approved protocols. 👈"

"👉This paper has been reviewed by the funding agency, the NIH. Continuation of these studies was requested, and this has been approved by the NIH👈.

SARS-CoV is a select agent."

"In the version of this article initially published online, the authors omitted to acknowledge a funding source, USAID-EPT-PREDICT funding from EcoHealth Alliance"

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0416-446d

USAID: "our EPT-1 and AI work has laid the foundation for a next generation of 👉investments👈💰 that seeks to consolidate these efforts into a highly coordinated program spanning pandemic" https://t.co/uv6OE5i9bx

USAID: "At the core of EPT-2 are seven new areas of strategic focus:

👉Strengthening global networks for real-time bio-surveillance👈"