Where is Professor Ralph Baric?

Why isn’t he an official consultant on the nature of SARS-CoV-2? Why hasn’t he been a member of any pandemic response task force?

The authors describe their work on creating a chimeric virus, SHC014-CoV, which is similar to the SARS-CoV virus that caused the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003. They used genetic engineering techniques to insert the spike protein from SHC014-CoV into a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone, creating a virus that could infect human airway cells.

The purpose of the study, as stated by the authors, was to understand the disease potential of bat coronaviruses and to develop vaccines and treatments in case of an outbreak in humans. The study was approved by the University of North Carolina Institutional Biosafety Committee and reviewed by the NIH. However, it is important to note that the paper does not provide evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVI…