Today, I questioned spokesperson Matt Miller about USAID funding of such work -- just after The BMJ reported that funding for such viral collection work was just cut off.
It seems clear that Matt Miller had his script in hand, anticipated your question and then treated you like a hostile witness in a jury trial rather than a reporter trying to do his job.
Evading bolsters belief in coronavirus having pandemic potential when reality is replication error rate in Nature makes the claim of a stable RNA viral sequence circling the globe laughable. All the black box sequencing & testing is mythology they can't swab you & get a genetic read.
They can produce vats of infectious clones that they stitched together & grew in E.coli but once it's in the wild every person passes on a new variant.. Nature is like that not even identical twins are truly identical.
It seems clear that Matt Miller had his script in hand, anticipated your question and then treated you like a hostile witness in a jury trial rather than a reporter trying to do his job.
Evading bolsters belief in coronavirus having pandemic potential when reality is replication error rate in Nature makes the claim of a stable RNA viral sequence circling the globe laughable. All the black box sequencing & testing is mythology they can't swab you & get a genetic read.
They can produce vats of infectious clones that they stitched together & grew in E.coli but once it's in the wild every person passes on a new variant.. Nature is like that not even identical twins are truly identical.