• @[email protected]
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    4624 days ago

    What a stupid headline. They suspended an agency responsible for monitoring institutions because they failed to monitor institutions and in fact participated in creating more lethal viruses.

  • @DevCat
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    24 days ago

    In the letter, HHS said it was holding Daszak responsible for EcoHealth Alliance’s failure to adequately monitor the activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and then subsequently failing to report on the lab’s high-risk virus studies.

    “The alleged conduct of EHA is imputed to you, because during all or part of the time relevant, you participated in, knew of, or had reason to know of EHA’s improper conduct, through your role as the President of EHA” as well as project director and principal investigator, HHS wrote.

    EcoHealth and Daszak have come under fire from Republicans and Democrats over the group’s work with the Wuhan lab, particularly regarding controversial “gain of function” research to enhance the ability of the virus to cause disease or make it more transmissible.

    Welcome to the “FO” phase of FU&FO.

    • @WraithGear
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      224 days ago

      That’s not a lot of FO for participating in studies to make viruses more transmissible and deadly for the purpose of making a bio weapon.