[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] good evening. Welcome to the historical society. Im louise, the president seal. This evening i have the pleasure of interviewing Eva Moscowitz. Ceo of the Largest Charter School Network in new york. The Success Academy. Tonights program is part of the speaker series. I want to thank mr. Swartz for his great generosity and leadership which has enabled us to bring many prominent speakers to the stage. Our chairman emeritus was hoping to be with us this morning but his travel schedule conflicted with the programming. Im delighted that susan who has advised us is here and i would like to thank her and welcome her father that she has done on behalf of the New York Historical. [applause] tonights program must about an hour. Questions will be written on notecards. You should have received this as you entered in this morning. My colleagues are going up and down the island c can get a no card for them. The cards will be collected later in the program. So be a
Market or come from accidental leak at a wuhan lab . Steve mosher was our guest and internationally recognized authority on china. It has his belief that the virus jumped from bats to humans in a poorly run research lab. China has collected 2,000 dangerous viruses from the wild including 300 coronaviruses roughly we understand many of which came from the interimmediate horseshoe bats that were talking about as original carrier of the virus. But if those viruses had stayed in bats in caves 160 miles away from wuhan they never would have come in contact with people would they . Why are they taking bats of the cage bringing them to Research Facilities and investigating the viruses that the bats have . What is the purpose of that kind of Virus Research . Well, i think there were a number of purposes one goes back to sars epidemic back in 2003 which killed a lot of people in china and infected a lot more. The sars virus, by the ways being studied in a lab in beijing in 2004 and twice late f
Leak at a wuhan lab . Steve mosher was our guest and internationally recognized authority on china. It has his belief that the virus jumped from bats to humans in a poorly run research lab. China has collected 2,000 dangerous viruses from the wild including 300 coronaviruses roughly we understand many of which came from the interimmediate horseshoe bats that were talking about as original carrier of the virus. But if those viruses had stayed in bats in caves 160 miles away from wuhan they never would have come in contact with people would they . Why are they taking bats of the cage bringing them to Research Facilities and investigating the viruses that the bats have . What is the purpose of that kind of Virus Research . Well, i think there were a number of purposes one goes back to sars epidemic back in 2003 which killed a lot of people in china and infected a lot more. The sars virus, by the ways being studied in a lab in beijing in 2004 and twice late from the lab. In other words chi
he failed to report that experiment, that he was protecting the wuhan lab and not sharing its lab notebooks and that he failed to disclose obvious conflicts of interest. so why were you trying to protect him and eco health alliance? i repeat on the record i have not tried to protect him and that s number one. number two, you said something that is not true. because i did not know about the compliance issues until well after the fact when i was being briefed for going to before a congressional committee. so it wasn t as if these things were going on i knew that he was withholding. did you know about dr. morens close relationship with dr. daczak. he made it clear he was his friend. i did not engage in the interaction between them. and just lastly, you
impossible for sars covid two known as covid-19 to have come from any of the work that was being done at wuhan. at the same time, you told mr. comer that you didn t know about the non-compliance by eco health until after the fact and when the virus was already out there, however it got there. in light of the fact that part of that non-compliance was a report where we uncovered and i believe dr. daszak was untruthful to this committee in one of his reports to niaid and in the two most sensitive years related to the humanized mice experiments we never got lab notebooks from wuhan institute of virology, can you understand following the bouncing ball, why