1/n More gems from Peter Daszak’s December 9 interview: “You can manipulate [coronaviruses] in the lab pretty easily, it is the spike protein who drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus zoonotic risk. You can get the sequence, you can build the protein. We worked...

2/n “Ralph Baric at UNC who did this, insert into a backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab. So, you can get more predictive when you find a sequence.”

3/n “If you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s try to insert some of these others and get a better vaccine.”

Was this work ongoing at WIV? Inserting other spikes into various backbones to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine?

4/4 Source (around the 30:00 mark) https://youtube.com/watch?t=30m00s&v=IdYDL_RK--w