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There's also Peter Daszak talking about modifying coronavirus spike proteins (through direct synthesis of RNA or serial passage or both). At "History & Future
by harshreality 5y ago
There's also Peter Daszak talking about modifying coronavirus spike proteins (through direct synthesis of RNA or serial passage or both). At "History & Future of Pandemics", at the New York Academy of Medicine. In February, 2016.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?404875-1/pandemics https://www.c-span.org/video/?404875-1/pandemics at 1:16:30
I can't get over just how insane this sounds. He goes on to claim it's to then check whether humans have antibodies to these mutant viruses they'll create in the lab, except why would there necessarily be that much antibody cross-reactivity between lab-engineered viral spike proteins and spike proteins that spilled over from bats to (eventually) humans naturally?