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Workers inspect masks at a production line of the Wuhan Zonsen Medical Products Co. Ltd. in Wuhan in central China s Hubei province April 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Eighteen leading scientists want a new investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter published in the journal Science the team questioned the conclusions reached earlier this year by a team chosen by the World Health Organization to look into what caused the viral outbreak in Wuhan, China that so far has taken the lives of more than three million people worldwide and more than 500,000 in the U.S.
Illustration by Jeremy Leung, Published 14:37, May. 19, 2021
In the ’90s, when he was a doctoral student at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, neuroscientist Sean Hill spent five years studying how cat brains respond to noise. At the time, researchers knew that two regions the cerebral cortex, which is the outer layer of the brain, and the thalamus, a nut-like structure near the centre did most of the work. But, when an auditory signal entered the brain through the ear, what happened, specifically? Which parts of the cortex and thalamus did the signal travel to? And in what order? The answers to such questions could help doctors treat hearing loss in humans. So, to learn more, Hill, along with his supervisor and a group of lab techs, anaesthetized cats and inserted electrodes into their brains to monitor what happened when the animals were exposed to sounds, which were piped into their ears via miniature headphones. Hill’s probe then captured the brain signals th
Thank God for Big Pharma
On March 15, 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders appeared in a CNN debate. The timing was ominous. COVID-19 had begun its exponential explosion in the United States. New York and other cities were locking down and hospitals were bracing for the inevitable deluge. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Senator Sanders, “If you were president right now, what would you do to make sure every sick American is able to get treatment?”
Sanders quickly zeroed in on what he believed was the core problem. “We have a bunch of crooks who are running the pharmaceutical industry,” he thundered. “Right now, in the midst of this epidemic, you got people…saying, ‘Oh, wow, what an opportunity to make a fortune!’” As president, Sanders vowed, he wouldn’t let that happen. “The drug companies will not rip us off!”
SARS2 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab
20 May 2021, 03:27 GMT+10
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wade, a noted science writer, editor and author.
In an elaborate article in the the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Wade said that much of the work of Chinese virologists on gain-of-function in coronaviruses was performed at the BSL2 safety level lab, which requires taking fairly minimal safety precautions. The pandemic broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019.
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Evidence shows COVID-19 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab, from where it escaped: Report ANI | Updated: May 20, 2021 01:20 IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wade, a noted science writer, editor and author.
In an elaborate article in the the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Wade said that much of the work of Chinese virologists on gain-of-function in coronaviruses was performed at the BSL2 safety level lab, which requires taking fairly minimal safety precautions. The pandemic broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019.