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The secret group of scientists and billionaires pushing a Manhattan Project for COVID-19
2020-04-29
[OrthoSpineNews] A dozen of America’s top scientists and a collection of billionaires and industry titans say they have the answer to the coronavirus pandemic, and they found a backdoor to deliver their plan to the White House.

The eclectic group is led by a 33-year-old physician-turned-venture capitalist, Tom Cahill, who lives far from the public eye in a one-bedroom rental near Boston’s Fenway Park. He owns just one suit, but he has enough lofty connections to influence government decisions in the war against Covid-19.

These scientists and their backers describe their work as a lockdown-era Manhattan Project, a nod to the World War II group of scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb. This time around, the scientists are marshaling brains and money to distill unorthodox ideas gleaned from around the globe.

They call themselves Scientists to Stop Covid-19, and they include chemical biologists, an immunobiologist, a neurobiologist, a chronobiologist, an oncologist, a gastroenterologist, an epidemiologist and a nuclear scientist. Of the scientists at the center of the project, biologist Michael Rosbash, a 2017 Nobel Prize winner, said, "There’s no question that I’m the least qualified."

This group, whose work hasn’t been previously reported, has acted as the go-between for pharmaceutical companies looking for a reputable link to Trump administration decision makers. They are working remotely as an ad hoc review board for the flood of research on the coronavirus, weeding out flawed studies before they reach policy makers.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  Fauci:. Do the times make the man or the man make the times? Fauci is a putz. Like, yeah, we should never again shake hands. GTFOH.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-29 17:25  

#1  Maybe there is something to it.
Trump made some very good calls since the CV19 business started - and it's certainly he didn't get the expert advice from Fauci (who, probably, still believes in herd immunity).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-29 15:52  

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