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Sustaining the Response: Inside the WHO-China Mission

Chatham House
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Members of the WHO-China mission discuss their investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 virus. At the beginning of 2021, a team of experts appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) completed a 28-day mission to the Chinese city of Wuhan to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. Emma Ross and Professor David Heymann host Professor Marion Koopmans and Professor John Watson, from the mission, to discuss their findings. Did the team learn anything from this trip that they didn’t know before? To what extent has our understanding of how to prevent pandemics progressed? And what furth …...more
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Introduction

0:00

What is the mission about

5:16

How is it to work

8:05

What was the dynamic

10:08

What is important

12:33

Preparing for the future

14:33

Is this too late

18:03

Lessons learnt

19:45

Politically charged environment

21:02

Political rhetoric

24:35

Leading theory

26:26

Wildlife trade

30:12

Livestock screening

30:50

Audience questions

32:07

How many sites were granted access

35:18

Are you comfortable with the way in which the media has portrayed

36:17

Did China provide any genetic sequencing data to substantiate their theory

38:23

Which theory should be given how much money

44:52

Did you achieve what you set out to do

49:56

Did you ask to see the databases

53:29

Lessons from this mission

55:36
Sustaining the Response: Inside the WHO-China Mission
Members of the WHO-China mission discuss their investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 virus. At the beginning of 2021, a team of experts appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) completed a 28-day mission to the Chinese city of Wuhan to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the global COVID-19 pandemic. Emma Ross and Professor David Heymann host Professor Marion Koopmans and Professor John Watson, from the mission, to discuss their findings. Did the team learn anything from this trip that they didn’t know before? To what extent has our understanding of how to prevent pandemics progressed? And what further research is required at this point? Dr Daszak’s research has been instrumental in identifying and predicting the origins and impact of emerging diseases across the globe. This includes identifying the bat origin of SARS, the drivers of Nipah virus emergence, publishing the first global emerging disease ‘hotspots’ map and discovering SADS coronavirus. Professor Marion Koopmans is the head of the Erasmus MC department of Viroscience. Her focus is on the global population level impact of rapidly spreading zoonotic virus infections with a special emphasis on foodborne transmission. Professor John Watson is a senior medical adviser in the Health Protection and Medical Directorate at Public Health England. He is the former deputy chief medical officer for the UK's Department of Health. Chatham House is consistently ranked as one of the world’s leading policy institutes. Based in London, it provides rigorous and independent analysis on how to build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world. http://www.chathamhouse.org @chathamhouse   / chathamhouse     / chatham-house  

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Chatham House

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