ACarl (@ACarl)

PREEMPT proposed various methods for advanced #surveillance and ecological modeling. The most notable feature of PREEMPT was its proposal for engineering interventions like self-spreading #vaccines. In response to #DARPA’s announcement of its #PREEMPT project, Peter #Daszak at #EcoHealth Alliance pitched his DEFUSE proposal on January 30, 2018 for manipulating bat #SARS #coronaviruses, including the insertion of a #furin cleavage site in the spike protein—that is, precisely the feature of SARS-CoV-2 (that emerged the following year) that made the virus efficiently transmit to humans. The proposed research partners for DEFUSE included the #Wuhan Institute of #Virology, the University of North Carolina’s Ralph #Baric lab, Columbia University’s Ian #Lipkin lab, #Duke-NUS, and Vincent #Munster representing #NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/vincent-muster-and-the-arrogance #spikeprotein #GOF #gainoffunction #monkeypox #Kwe #Congo #chickenpox #DNA #avianinfluenza