Is There a Nationalized Health Curse?

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It isn't easy to get a sample from one lab to an appropriate sequencing lab and then properly collect that data in a way that's actually usable for the scientists. The c d c is working on this, but there is also some private efforts. One of them was rick as through the rockefellor foundation. He compared it to looking at the weather if you had i early morning siem taget.

Rick Bright exposed former president Trump's political meddling in the US COVID response. Now he is championing a new privately funded initiative to track viral spread and combat new variants.

We discuss the challenges of collecting data on a rapidly spreading virus, from transmission dynamics to genomic surveillance. We also ask why a veteran government scientist like Bright, the ex-director of the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, would take a new path in the private sector.

News Q&A: Pandemic whistle-blower: we need a non-political way to track viruses

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