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by throwaway4good 1790 days ago
Christian Drosten is a big name in Germany’s covid efforts. His name on this statement with Peter Daszak is quite a message.
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No doubt Drosten is a great scientist, but he seems to be very naive when it comes to Chinese politics and nationalism:

In his podcast he said: "...we basically do not consider Chinese scientists to be influenced...".

This might be have been true before September 2019, when this virus research was just an average research topic out of many, but it is certainly not true since the pandemic started.