Name: ‘We’ve done nothing wrong.’ EcoHealth leader fights charges that his research helped spark COVID-19
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‘We’ve done nothing wrong.’ EcoHealth leader fights charges that his research helped spark COVID-19

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Peter Daszak’s life took a turn for the worse on the evening of 17 April 2020. It has yet to recover.

Daszak, a conservation biologist, heads the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit research group based in New York City that aims to prevent new infectious diseases from emerging. His family had been in a COVID-19 lockdown in their home outside the city for 1 month, and Daszak had spent long days working from a wood-paneled basement office, occasionally giving interviews as a pandemic expert.

That Friday evening, he went upstairs for a cup of tea with his wife, who was in the kitchen watching a...

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