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."
https://t.co/UdmKPvwEuB
https://t.co/UdmKPvwEuB
World Economic Forum
Saving lives through vaccinations
This is part of a series of articles exploring the role the World Economic Forum has played in supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ahead of our Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York. Goal 3 is good health and well-being.
"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"
https://t.co/dlneFuW2wH
https://t.co/dlneFuW2wH
www.gavi.org
About our Alliance
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance helps vaccinate more than half the world’s children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases.
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"
https://t.co/zYM48LAdP9
https://t.co/zYM48LAdP9
PubMed Central (PMC)
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
Ralph Baric, Vineet Menachery and colleagues characterize a SARS-like coronavirus circulating in Chinese horseshoe bats to determine its potential to infect primary human airway epithelial cells, cause disease in mice and respond to available ...
""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."
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
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0416-446d
Nature
Correction: Corrigendum: A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
Nature Medicine - Correction: Corrigendum: A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
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
www.usaid.gov
Emerging Pandemic Threats Program
EPT-2 [[nid:99366]]
USAID: "At the core of EPT-2 are seven new areas of strategic focus:
👉Strengthening global networks for real-time bio-surveillance👈"
👉Strengthening global networks for real-time bio-surveillance👈"
"Reporter in White House press briefing: There's also another report that the NIH, under the Obama administration, in 2015 gave that lab $3.7 million in a grant. Why would the U.S. give a grant like that to China?" 👉"That [$3.7m NIH (US gov)] grant was to Peter Daszak's U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance..Daszak had been spending about $100,000 a year collaborating with the Wuhan lab."👈
"Peter Daszak [ECO HEALTH ALLIANCE] is a British-born American Ph.D. who's spent a career 👉discovering👈 dangerous viruses in wildlife, especially bats." Why would the Obama administration be funneling money to a private company, EcoHealth Alliance? The only logical explanation is that the company works for the US government, or for parts of it, or for special interests linked to or within the US government, like, for example, the CIA.
https://t.co/BO4EGSfBAk
https://t.co/BO4EGSfBAk
CBS News
Trump administration cuts funding for coronavirus researcher, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure
An American scientist who collaborates with the Wuhan Institute of Virology had his grant terminated in the wake of unsubstantiated claims that COVID-19 is either manmade or leaked out of a Chinese government lab.
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PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND: "Understanding cycle threshold (Ct) in SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR"
"RT-PCR detects presence of viral genetic material in a sample but is NOT able to distinguish whether infectious virus is present"
https://t.co/ZaRBrmzCDH
"RT-PCR detects presence of viral genetic material in a sample but is NOT able to distinguish whether infectious virus is present"
https://t.co/ZaRBrmzCDH
THE RIGHT TO PROTEST: International treaties contain clear articulations of the right to protest. Including the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, especially Articles 9 to 11; and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, especially Articles 18 to 22.
This is legal info from @StandUpX2 on twitter for those protesting this week end. Do read if you are planning to protest or attend any educational rallies.
https://t.co/9Gn2CZBS1W
https://t.co/9Gn2CZBS1W
Standup
StandupX Legal Info
Protestor arrest assistance, letter templates, class action lawsuits.
List of solicitors in the UK experienced with protest cases
https://t.co/0NJF0HJxIx
https://t.co/0NJF0HJxIx
97٪ FALSE POSITIVES:
"We correlated Ct values obtained using our PCR technique based on amplification of the E gene and the results of the culture. At Ct = 35, the value we used to report a positive result for PCR, <3% of cultures are positive." https://t.co/sxs1Zi9f6z
"We correlated Ct values obtained using our PCR technique based on amplification of the E gene and the results of the culture. At Ct = 35, the value we used to report a positive result for PCR, <3% of cultures are positive." https://t.co/sxs1Zi9f6z
OUP Academic
Correlation Between 3790 Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction–Positives Samples and Positive Cell Cultures, Including 1941 Severe…
TO THE EDITOR—The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared