If only there was a back story of why the Nature Medicine Proximal Origin article initially submitted to Nature was rejected.
"Marion Koopmans, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, and Ron Fouchier, her deputy, were key to some of its central arguments. Christian Drosten, director of the Institute of Virology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, also made the case that SARS-CoV-2 could not have been engineered.
A review of their scientific publications show that they have deeper experience working with coronaviruses in the lab than the virologists publicly credited as co-authors of the article.
But Koopmans and Fouchier also had competing interests.
Erasmus Medical Center partners with EcoHealth Alliance, a virus hunting project that worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab at the pandemic’s epicenter.
Fouchier’s involvement in particular may have caused a stir had it been apparent when the piece first published online in March 2020."
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/paper-critical-of-lab-leak-theory-cribbed-ideas-from-controversial-gain-of-function-virologist/The July 2020 redacted email from Andersen, who favored the engineering view before the 'call' and hidden from view for over 2 years....


And the recently obtained version .....

Fouchier and Drostek were on the call.
Who was on the original W.HO. 'investigative' researcher team to go to Wuhan to get to the bottom of the origin of Covid ?
Fouchier's boss, Koopmans, and Daszak.

It's "a very destructive conspiracy".
Francis Collins
'Well I didn't do it. My colleagues did it."
Peter Daszak