Tag: Christian Drosten

Christian Drosten and the ‘Bat Woman’ of Wuhan

Commentary Thanks to an observant Twitter user (hat-tip @lissnup), I now know much more about the curious photo of German virologist Christian Drosten included in my previous article on “The Other Lab in Wuhan.” It is not a photo of a Tongji Medical College event, but rather of a “Sino-German Symposium on Infectious Diseases” that was held…


Gates or Germany? Who ‘Owns’ the WHO’s COVID-19 Response?

Commentary The idea that Bill Gates is somehow the driving force behind the WHO’s vaccine-centric COVID-19 response is very widespread—at least on Twitter. But this notion recently received some unexpected support from a mainstream media source: Politico, the online news service that was started in D.C. in the naughts, launched a Brussels-based European edition in partnership…