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I'm seeing a lot of economic stories, but nothing specifically stands out.
Reuters is reporting on Indonesia which is odd given the MB/Brennan/Hussein drops last night.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-cases-idUSKB
MAY 1, 2020 / 5:01 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Indonesia reports 433 new coronavirus cases, eight deaths
>MUH FUCKIN COG DIS prevents this line of research.
Follow the money?
>The letter cites a November 2018 article in Science magazine cosigned by officials at the Galveston and Wuhan labs
>The magazine article, also available on the Galveston lab’s site, adds that the Wuhan and Texas labs recently signed formal cooperative agreements
https://www.utmb.edu/gnl/news/2018/11/28/scientific-diplomacy-and-international-cooperation-key-say-bsl4-directors
https://archive.vn/8I5Jn
institutions and nations are constructing maximum biocontainment laboratories (MCLs) to address these threats. MCLs operate at the highest level of biological containment to diagnose, perform research on, and validate cures for life-threatening diseases like Ebola
An MCL network could fill the personnel pipeline more efficiently by connecting experienced personnel and professional societies to develop standards for globally accepted training and create mentoring opportunities.
We direct a newly constructed MCL in Wuhan, China (Z.Y.) and an established MCL in the United States (J.W.L), in Galveston, Texas. In preparation for the opening of the new China MCL, we engaged in short- and long-term personnel exchanges focused on biosafety training, building operations and maintenance, and collaborative scientific investigations in biocontainment. We succeeded in transferring proven best practices to the new Wuhan facility.
Both labs recently signed formal cooperative agreements that will streamline future scientific and operational collaborations on dangerous pathogens, although funding for research and the logistics of exchanging specimens are challenges that we have yet to solve.
We benefited from meetings jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese National Academy of Sciences and from World Health Organization initiatives, but stakeholders are not limited to human and animal health.
James W. Le Duc is the Director, Galveston National Laboratory and Professor, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Zhiming Yuan is the Director, Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor of Wuhan Institute of Virology and President of Wuhan Branch, Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan, China
>James W. Le Duc
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/UTMB-scientist-acknowledges-safety-risks-at-15221826.php
A leading Texas scientist who visited a Chinese laboratory conducting coronavirus research acknowledged that while that facility made security a priority, it is possible that an accident could have led to the global virus outbreak.
James Le Duc, the director of the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, has had a professional relationship with several Chinese biocontainment labs since 2013, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory, which studies some of the world’s most lethal infectious diseases, including coronaviruses in bats.
“Accidents happen,” Le Duc told the Houston Chronicle. “You do your best to prevent it, and you prepare for an eventuality if it should happen. So all I can say is (the Wuhan lab) was built comparable to ours, with a whole series of redundant safety measures in place. We did our best to share best practices so that they knew how to drive it and keep it safe. But it would be foolish to say there’s no risk, because there’s risk in everything.”
Yet the coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab so alarmed American science diplomats that they requested the United States provide further support beyond the assistance that the lab was getting from UTMB. In another cable, diplomats noted “the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”
As part of a team at UTMB that helped train staff from the Wuhan lab, Le Duc was hesitant to ascribe blame or speculate on any specific cause of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. He did, however, acknowledge China’s relative lack of experience in establishing high-security biocontainment labs.