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 ==== Coronavirus Research  Timeline ==== ==== Coronavirus Research  Timeline ====
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 +=== 1992 ===
 +  * June 11, 1992 - Baric was part of a team that published research noting how rabbit coronavirus could cause [[heart]] and [[cardiovascular]] issue including [[cardiomyopathy]], [[myocardial fibrosis]], and [[congestive heart failure]].((June 11, 1992 | Lorraine Alexander et al | An Experimental Model for Dilated Cardiomyopathy after Rabbit Coronavirus Infection | [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7109931/pdf/166-5-978.pdf]]))
  
 === 2013 === === 2013 ===
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-===== Controversy During the COVID-19 Pandemic =====+===== Pandemics ===== 
 +Baric's career depends on funding associated with concern over [[pandemic|pandemics]], and [[biowarfare]].
  
-==== USRTK FOIA Archive ====+==== Talks On Pandemics ==== 
 +  * Imagining the Next Flu Pandemic--and Preventing It!((April, 2018 | Ralph Baric | [[https://sph.unc.edu/nciph/1918-flu-symposium/|UNC Going Viral Conference]] | "Imagining the Next Flu Pandemic--and Preventing It!" | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuERPvBFfco|Video at YouTube]])) 
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 +==== Controversy During the COVID-19 Pandemic ==== 
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 +=== USRTK FOIA Archive ===
  
 Ralph Baric emails batch #1 (12.14.20) (83,416 pages). Dr. Ralph Baric’s emails with EcoHealth Alliance, Wuhan Institute of Virology, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and experts in biodefense and infectious diseases.((https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6fbnvgw2i2a2ksv/AADfQOIVnUTvN3pJLmjr8irEa?dl=0)) Ralph Baric emails batch #1 (12.14.20) (83,416 pages). Dr. Ralph Baric’s emails with EcoHealth Alliance, Wuhan Institute of Virology, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and experts in biodefense and infectious diseases.((https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6fbnvgw2i2a2ksv/AADfQOIVnUTvN3pJLmjr8irEa?dl=0))
  
-==== Congressional Investigation ==== +=== Congressional Investigation === 
 COVID Timeline with summary details at [[Peter Daszak]]. Full Report ((https://web.archive.org/web/20210802165023/https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf))  COVID Timeline with summary details at [[Peter Daszak]]. Full Report ((https://web.archive.org/web/20210802165023/https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf)) 
  
  
-==== Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Summary ====+=== Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Summary ===
 “As we continued our investigation into the origins of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], we uncovered even more disturbing evidence about the [[Chinese Communist Party]]’s (CCP) coverup and [[WHO Director General Tedros]]’s gross mishandling of the virus that allowed it to turn into a deadly pandemic,” said Lead Republican [[Michael McCaul]]. “It is crystal clear that had the CCP been transparent, and had the head of the WHO cared more about global health than appeasing the CCP, lives could have been spared and widespread economic devastation could have been mitigated. Revealing the truth is just the first step; we must hold both the CCP and WHO Director General Tedros accountable for the suffering they have allowed the world to endure.”((https://web.archive.org/web/20210803114834/https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/blog/mccaul-releases-final-report-on-origins-of-covid-19-pandemic/ | McCaul Final Report)) “As we continued our investigation into the origins of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], we uncovered even more disturbing evidence about the [[Chinese Communist Party]]’s (CCP) coverup and [[WHO Director General Tedros]]’s gross mishandling of the virus that allowed it to turn into a deadly pandemic,” said Lead Republican [[Michael McCaul]]. “It is crystal clear that had the CCP been transparent, and had the head of the WHO cared more about global health than appeasing the CCP, lives could have been spared and widespread economic devastation could have been mitigated. Revealing the truth is just the first step; we must hold both the CCP and WHO Director General Tedros accountable for the suffering they have allowed the world to endure.”((https://web.archive.org/web/20210803114834/https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/blog/mccaul-releases-final-report-on-origins-of-covid-19-pandemic/ | McCaul Final Report))
  
-=== Washington Post OpEd ===+== Washington Post OpEd ==
 New congressional report says covid-19 likely emerged in Wuhan months earlier than originally thought New congressional report says covid-19 likely emerged in Wuhan months earlier than originally thought
 by Josh Rogin Columnist by Josh Rogin Columnist
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 The Lancet commission on covid-19 removed Daszak from its team focusing on the origins of the pandemic after Daszak filed an updated conflict of interest statement about his collaboration with the Wuhan labs. McCaul wants him to be subpoenaed to testify and is demanding the EcoHealth Alliance hand over its relevant records to Congress.((https://web.archive.org/web/20210802234108/http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/02/new-report-says-covid-emerged-in-wuhan-months-earlier/)) The Lancet commission on covid-19 removed Daszak from its team focusing on the origins of the pandemic after Daszak filed an updated conflict of interest statement about his collaboration with the Wuhan labs. McCaul wants him to be subpoenaed to testify and is demanding the EcoHealth Alliance hand over its relevant records to Congress.((https://web.archive.org/web/20210802234108/http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/02/new-report-says-covid-emerged-in-wuhan-months-earlier/))
  
-==== Lab Leak Coverup ====+=== Lab Leak Coverup ===
  
 In April 2021, in an editorial in the journal Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Shi resorted to a familiar tactic to contain the cloud of suspicion enveloping her: She invoked scientific consensus, just as the Lancet statement had. “The scientific community strongly dismisses these unproven and misleading speculations and generally accepts that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin and was selected either in an animal host before zoonotic transfer, or in humans following zoonotic transfer,” she wrote. In April 2021, in an editorial in the journal Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Shi resorted to a familiar tactic to contain the cloud of suspicion enveloping her: She invoked scientific consensus, just as the Lancet statement had. “The scientific community strongly dismisses these unproven and misleading speculations and generally accepts that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin and was selected either in an animal host before zoonotic transfer, or in humans following zoonotic transfer,” she wrote.
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 Among the signers was Ralph Baric. Fifteen months earlier, he had worked behind the scenes to help Peter Daszak stage-manage the Lancet statement. The scientific consensus had been smashed to smithereens.((https://web.archive.org/web/20210603100523/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins)) Among the signers was Ralph Baric. Fifteen months earlier, he had worked behind the scenes to help Peter Daszak stage-manage the Lancet statement. The scientific consensus had been smashed to smithereens.((https://web.archive.org/web/20210603100523/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins))
  
-==== Biosafety at University of North Carolina (UNC) ====+=== Biosafety at University of North Carolina (UNC) ===
  
  
-=== Engineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid ‘Explosion’ of Risky Coronavirus Research ===+== Engineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid ‘Explosion’ of Risky Coronavirus Research ==
 by Jonathan Latham August 17, 2020  by Jonathan Latham August 17, 2020 
  
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 In part this is because the minutes of the relevant IBC meeting (May 6th, 2020, p109) are extremely brief. They do not provide any details of the fate of the bitten researcher. Nor do they state, for example, whether the researcher developed an active infection, nor whether they developed symptoms, nor if they transmitted the recombinant virus to anyone else. Neither do they reveal what kind of [[recombinant virus]] was being used or the purpose of the experiment. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220120184413/https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/engineered-covid-19-infected-mouse-bites-researcher-amid-explosion-of-risky-coronavirus-research/)) In part this is because the minutes of the relevant IBC meeting (May 6th, 2020, p109) are extremely brief. They do not provide any details of the fate of the bitten researcher. Nor do they state, for example, whether the researcher developed an active infection, nor whether they developed symptoms, nor if they transmitted the recombinant virus to anyone else. Neither do they reveal what kind of [[recombinant virus]] was being used or the purpose of the experiment. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220120184413/https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/engineered-covid-19-infected-mouse-bites-researcher-amid-explosion-of-risky-coronavirus-research/))
  
-=== Redactions of Biosafety Committee discussions ===+== Redactions of Biosafety Committee discussions ==
  
 The second reason for this lack of information is that the UNC redacted the names of [[Principal Investigators]] (PIs) whose research required biosafety scrutiny, along with many of the experimental specifics. The second reason for this lack of information is that the UNC redacted the names of [[Principal Investigators]] (PIs) whose research required biosafety scrutiny, along with many of the experimental specifics.
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-==== Wuhan BSL Connection ====+=== Wuhan BSL Connection ===
 Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
 China emulated US techniques to construct novel coronaviruses in unsafe conditions. China emulated US techniques to construct novel coronaviruses in unsafe conditions.
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 Unnoticed by most, however, was a key difference that significantly shifted the risk calculation. The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220207131353/https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan)) Unnoticed by most, however, was a key difference that significantly shifted the risk calculation. The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.((https://web.archive.org/web/20220207131353/https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan))
-==== Did Ralph Baric of UNC Design Omicron? ====+ 
 +=== Did Ralph Baric of UNC Design Omicron? ===
 "COVID Bioweapon Against Mice" Patent 11225508 "COVID Bioweapon Against Mice" Patent 11225508
 March 30, 2022 by Igor Chudov  March 30, 2022 by Igor Chudov 
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