https://www.afinalwarning.com/513683.html (Natural News) The state of Washington was the site of the first major coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the U.S. in March last year. As infection rates and the need for tests were spiking, BGI Group – the world’s largest biotech company – approached the state with an enticing offer.
BGI proposed to build and help run state-of-the-art COVID testing labs, provide technical expertise and high throughput sequencers and make additional donations. Given the situation, it seemed like an offer the state couldn’t refuse. But officials were suspicious about BGI and its connections with the Chinese government.
by Jim Shamp, NCBiotech writer April 21, 2021 .
Editor’s note: Each Wednesday, WRAL TechWire features a story highlighting life science jobs across North Carolina and the NC Bio Jobs Hub initiative from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
DURHAM – Soon you might run into it anywhere around the Triangle:
“Me? Oh, I just started working at the GRAIL plant in RTP.”
“Somehow I never pictured you working in manufacturing.”
“Um…we make cancer detection kits. Really special kits. They could save your life. Or mine. So yes. It’s great. This is manufacturing work like none other.”
GRAIL, an innovative California healthcare company, announced last June that it would invest $103 million and create nearly 400 new jobs over four years in a new 200,000-square-foot lab, office, and warehouse facility in Research Triangle Park.
More Than a Threat: China Collects Americans’ DNA
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In the past few years, the United States has come to the realization and consensus that China, with its ambition to achieve global domination and its complete disregard for ethics and humanity, has become the number one threat to the United States and the rest of the free world.
Espionage by China has long been a known threat, and each day the world learns a little bit more about the extensive reach of China’s information theft in many territories. The most recent discovery is that China has been openly and discreetly collecting America’s health care data, notably the DNA of the American people.
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Have a Case of a COVID Variant? No One Is Going To Tell You
There are arguments for and against notifying patients.
Covid-19 infections from variant strains are quickly spreading across the U.S., but there’s one big problem: Lab officials say they can’t tell patients or their doctors whether someone has been infected by a variant.
Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged but can’t do the kind of investigation and deliver the notifications needed to slow the spread, according to Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
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Covid-19 infections from variant strains are quickly spreading across the U.S., but there’s one big problem: Lab officials say they can’t tell patients or their doctors whether someone has been infected by a variant.
Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged but can’t do the kind of investigation and deliver the notifications needed to slow the spread, according to Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
“It could be associated with a person in a high-risk congregate setting or it might not be, but without patient information, we don’t know what we don’t know,” Hamilton said. The group has asked federal officials to waive the rules. “Time is ticking.”