I've gotta get time to read the
'raw' FOIA releases that have become available, although these two (2) items were of interest, c/o USA Today.
The infectious diseases expert had email exchanges with an adviser to Bill Gates, a Chinese official and concerned experts.
www.newsweek.com
It looks like they
'defaulted' to
'not engineered until proven otherwise,' despite hints. This supports the
'gain of function' theory is finally being taking seriously, the one Fauci
'redefined' with Senator Paul, and the first time I ever became
'critical' of Dr. Fauci. Ihad supported him -- against the left early on, and then the right after that -- until he made those 100% political (
"don't offend Bejing, so they still participate in WHO"), 0% factual (actually at odds with the elementary definition) statements.
3. Experts worried that COVID-19 could 'look engineered'
Andersen noted that the "unusual features" of the virus made up "a really small part" of its genome.
"We have a good team lined up to look very critically at this, so we should know much more at the end of the weekend," he wrote as part of a chain of emails.
"I should mention that after discussions earlier today, Eddie, Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory," Andersen said. "But we have to look at this much more closely and there are still further analyses to be done, so those opinions could still change."
Andersen and his team subsequently published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine where they wrote that they did not "believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."
However, the article noted that more scientific data "could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another."
This one wasn't a shocker. It's why I wear a mask with P100 filters, as well as a face shield for awhile, and not a cloth mask or even 95. It's really too keep people from
'hacking' and
'throwing' air and droplets across-a-room (6m/20').
4. Fauci said that store-bought masks are 'not really effective'
In an email on February 5, 2020, Fauci advised against wearing masks and said that face masks bought in a store would not be effective at protecting against the virus. He was replying to queries from one Sylvia Burwell, who may be to the same Sylvia Burwell who served as secretary for health and human services from 2014 to 2017.
"Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection," Fauci wrote.
"The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you."
"I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location," he said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance on mask-wearing in April 2020 and strongly recommended face coverings. Fauci's email was sent before this advice and he backed the CDC recommendations once they were introduced.