coronavirus

I said:
they alluded to Peter Daszak knowing Shi Zhengli ('bat woman' being investigated by international spies ) in the interview so I wondered how well he knew her.
turns out pretty well. he has collaborated with her on a number of papers over the years:
https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc4810638
https://www.c.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0401-t1
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/310/5748/676/tab-figures-data
he is president of the ecohealth alliance:
https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/personnel/dr-peter-daszak
ecohealth alliance has been funding the wuhan biolab through an NIH grant. that grant has just been cut off as the biolab is now being investigated by the NIH:
https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/nih-investigating-wuhan-lab-at-center-of-coronavirus-pandemic/
states he has been working with his 'Chinese collaborators for 15 yrs on SARSr-CoVs'on his twitter:
https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1212018989263720455
I think he might have a conflict of interest.
but I may just be a conspiracy theorist with a propensity for low level crime.

EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2

Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” was organized by employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The emails obtained via public records requests show that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak drafted the Lancet statement, and that he intended it to “not be identifiable as coming from any one organization or person” but rather to be seen as “simply a letter from leading scientists”. Daszak wrote that he wanted “to avoid the appearance of a political statement”.

The scientists’ letter appeared in The Lancet on February 18, just one week after the World Health Organization announced that the disease caused by the novel coronavirus would be named COVID-19.

The 27 authors “strongly condemn[ed] conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” and reported that scientists from multiple countries “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.” The letter included no scientific references to refute a lab-origin theory of the virus. One scientist, Linda Saif, asked via email whether it would be useful “to add just one or 2 statements in support of why nCOV is not a lab generated virus and is naturally occuring? Seems critical to scientifically refute such claims!” Daszak responded, “I think we should probably stick to a broad statement.”