“These conditions and particularly the political tensions between the Chinese and U.S. governments at the time effectively shut down communications among scientists at the WIV (a Chinese government laboratory) and EcoHealth Alliance staff, making it impossible for EcoHealth Alliance to secure the requested data,” said Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s president, in an official response to the audit.
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Mr. Daszak stated that “we will intensively sample bats at our field sites where we have identified high spillover risk SARSr-CoVs” – the term for bat coronaviruses.
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