This from John Lees:

I only just found out that the Lancet is now hosting a revised disclosure of interests from the author of their earlier "consensus" statement that Covid could not be man-made.
In which the author is revealed to have been directly involved in the manufacture of man-made "recombinant" versions of bat coronaviruses.
At least we now have absolute clarity on this point:
"[EcoHealth Alliance's work in China involves].. the production of a small number of recombinant bat coronaviruses to analyse cell entry and other characteristics

of bat coronaviruses for which only the genetic sequences are available. NIH reviewed the planned recombinant virus work and deemed it does not meet the criteria that would warrant further specific review by its Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) committee."
Only a small number. How reassuring. Unfortunately, we only needed one to turn out to be highly contagious and escape containment.
I don't care that they only made a "small number". One was enough.

Apparently it did not dawn on him that this might be a teeny weeny conflict of interest, when the initial article was published and promoted.

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