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As former yorkshire players. we have all got to take responsibility and the important aspect of a dressing room is culture, and it has to be inclusive. i feel throughout my whole time, i can look back and i honestly believe it was inclusive, but im more than happy for someone to have a conversation with me to say that it wasnt. can you see that there is a difference between you saying if i upset him, i apologise him, and "im sorry". yes, again, we can go round corners in terms of having conversa...

Thereve been claims scientist may have been carrying out controversial so—called gain of function studies where viruses are manipulated and potentially made more contagious. yes, i believe those experiments were going on, because thats what we found out and try to understand viruses. china has called these claims, calling them pure lies. the spill—over is probably more likely but there is a significant possibility nonetheless that the lab was involved in some way, shape orform. the internati...

Of covid and the geopolitical infighting is severely hindering the science. china still has not shared some of the key data from the earliest days of the pandemic, including information about the very first suspected cases. from the start its leaders have tried to control the information coming out. what is it like going into these countries? no country wants to be investigated in this way, they want their own people to do it. it is not this idea of going in, and doing parachute research, taking...

High pressure will build in which will quieten things down. but ahead of it, we can trace those isobars all the way back to the north — and that means a colder wind direction, with that northerly wind and driving the blue tones, the cooler air, a little bit further south, you really will notice the difference with the feel of the weather if you are out and about this week. so sunny spells and blustery showers from the word go, most of the showers to the north but some will push further south a...

To include it or we dont have a report. he agreed that we could mention it in the report on the condition that we wouldnt recommend specific studies on that hypotheses, we would just leave it there. he basically suggested that, yes, there was pressure, and that is why it was characterised in that way and if it hadnt been written in as extremely unlikely, or there is no further investigation needed, then it couldnt appear on that report at all. we made it clear that the lab hypothesis is not off ...

Again with the laboratory leak, if there was evidence to follow, thatd be great, lets go down that pathway. if the us agencies had come with more information, terrific, lets get on with it and try to assist them. but in terms of taking it further, you then need evidence to go further. 0n the 9th of february 2020, thejoint who china mission reported its findings to the world. it concluded that a spill—over from an infected animal was the most likely triggerfor the pandemic, followed by the poss...

For this, especially when there is an outpouring of anger. what you see is people saying, who caused covid? it is always over there, it is always them, nobody wants to take the responsibility. in some way i think this might have backfired on the chinese because instead of actually getting more trust in more cooperation, it seems to have led to more scrutiny and more scepticism over, what are you hiding if you are not willing to be more transparent? the who is the un agency the world turns to dur...

With the who joint studies international lead, also raised questions around whether the international team were pressured into presenting the laboratory leak theory as extremely unlikely, suggesting that this was the only way it was allowed to be featured in the final report. translation: 48 hours before | we were done with the mission, we still hadnt agreed on whether to mention the laboratory in the report. my counterpart and i went out into the hallway and discussed how to resolve the impasse...

Some kind of waste material coming out of the laboratory. this pandemic has killed at least 4.9 million people. it has turned our lives as we knew them upside down. health systems have been overwhelmed. and families forced to stay apart. there is always politics and blame games in new disease outbreaks, but there are concerns that the massive impact of covid and the geopolitical infighting is severely hindering the science. china still has not shared some of the key data from the earliest days o...

About what exactly type of research was going on at the wuhan institute of virology, which had received some funding from the us. there have been claims scientist may have been carrying out controversial gain of function studies where viruses are manipulated and potentially made more contagious. yes, i believe those experiments were going on because that is what our field does when we are trying to understand the biology of viruses. china has denied these claims, calling them pure lies. the spil...