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May 25, 2021 | 8:18 pm
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS
THREE more coronavirus vaccine developers applied for clinical trials in the Philippines, the Department of Science and Technology said on Tuesday.
In a press briefing, Science and Technology Undersecretary Rowena Cristina L. Guevara said the task group on vaccine evaluation and selection received clinical trial applications from West China Hospital and Sichuan University, Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., and Eubiologics Co. Ltd.
“Evaluation of the first two new applications are ongoing, while Eubiologics Co. Ltd. are still completing some requirements,” she told an online briefing.
The applications are for phase III clinical trials, she said.
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Leading scientists increasingly question whether the Wuhan Lab in China was the source of the coronavirus.
The hotly contested issue drives a number of hard questions: How likely are the laboratory leaks of deadly viruses? What is the risk of a man-made pandemic? Should scientists make deadly viruses even more lethal in lab experiments?
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Debate around this has been heated in scientific circles for decades. A number of scientists are deeply engaged, including Dr. David Evans of the University of Alberta, one of the world’s leading poxvirus researchers, who got worldwide attention in 2016 for synthesizing horsepox, a virus in the smallpox family. Evans has also been involved in biosafety inspections of the highest security labs in Russia and the U.S.
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Leading scientists increasingly question whether the Wuhan Lab in China was the source of the coronavirus.
The hotly contested issue drives a number of hard questions: How likely are the laboratory leaks of deadly viruses? What is the risk of a man-made pandemic? Should scientists make deadly viruses even more lethal in lab experiments?
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Debate around this has been heated in scientific circles for decades. A number of scientists are deeply engaged, including Dr. David Evans of the University of Alberta, one of the world’s leading poxvirus researchers, who got worldwide attention in 2016 for synthesizing horsepox, a virus in the smallpox family. Evans has also been involved in biosafety inspections of the highest security labs in Russia and the U.S.
After hearing the news that then President-elect Donald Trump had appointed a notorious climate change denier to lead the Environmental Protection Agency transition team in 2016, Nicholas Shapiro, an environmental anthropologist, penned an urgent email to a dozen or so fellow scientists.
He was worried that the EPA was about to be torn apart from the inside under Trump’s leadership. Others on the email thread were concerned that vital environmental data would be taken down from federal websites and destroyed. They’d just seen brutal attacks on science in Canada irreplaceable scientific records were dumped in the trash under conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and they feared that something similar could happen in the US. So Shapiro took a cue from his sister, an organizer for the Women’s March, and tried to bring researchers together to mount an offensive.
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