Tony

Dear Cliff, Hope you are well. As many these days, I am looking forward very much to America being back in global / multilateral health! As many many people around the world, I feel deeply sorry and frustrated about the attacks on Tony. I know that his box is full. That is why I allowed myself to use your mail to convey him a message of friendship and support. Warm greetings Professor Michel Kazatchkine Special Advisor to the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva PRESS: CBS “This Morning”; ITV (UK TV); Interview with Alison Young of USA Today on lab-leak hypothesis; Interview with Yahoo Life; Did White House digital team PSA at NIH; New York Times Sway Podcast with Kara Swisher Very Important piece in Foreign Policy by Justin Ling: The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence. By Justin Ling Quote from the article below: And what about RaTG13, the virus that Wade and Baker argue is so similar to COVID-19 that it would only need some tuneups? In a statement from April 2020, Edward Holmes—an evolutionary biologist and virologist at the University of Sydney—noted that “the level of genome sequence divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years (and at least 20 years) of evolutionary change The Washington Post: Two weeks later, Tucker Carlson’s attack on Fauci has quietly collapsed The News Corp. building on 6th Avenue, home to Fox News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, on March 20, 2019, in New York. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images) By Philip Bump Historical record of A.S. Fauci - Part 4