A few articles of interest.

Russia Registers World's First Nasal Vaccine Against COVID-19 Sputnik News 4-1-22

Russia has registered the world's first nasal vaccine against the COVID-19 infection.
According to the Russian Health Ministry, the nasal vaccine consists of two doses that should be sprayed within a three-week interval.
The nasal vaccine has been approved for everyone aged above 18 years.
Last year, the Gamaleya Research Institute announced the creation of a nasal form of its Sputnik V vaccine. Russian President Putin later said he took the nasal vaccine as a booster.

Interesting to watch the Covid origination stories repeated to a wider and wider audiences. Many publications keep revisiting only two possibilities Lab Leak Theory or Natural Origin. Leaves the audience with the feeling they totally know the inside scoop. At the very end of a long article this it is suggested Wuhan Market was not the source of Covid. But, if one stopped reading earlier in the article one could assume Wuhan was the beginning of the saga.

“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak ControversyVanity Fair March 31, 2022

Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
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The dispute over COVID-19’s origins has become increasingly acrimonious, with warring camps of scientists trading personal insults on Twitter feeds. Natural-origin proponents argue that the virus, like so many before it, emerged from the well-known phenomenon of natural spillover, jumping from a bat host to an intermediate species before going on to infect humans. Those suspecting a lab-related incident point to an array of possible scenarios, from inadvertent exposure of a scientist during field research to the accidental release of a natural or manipulated strain during laboratory work. The lack of concrete evidence supporting either theory has only increased the rancor. “Everyone is looking for a smoking gun that would render any reasonable doubt impossible,” says Amir Attaran, a biologist and lawyer at the University of Ottawa. Without cooperation from the Chinese government, that may be impossible
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n February 25, 2022, a day before Worobey, Andersen, Garry, and their 15 coauthors rushed their preprints into the public domain, claiming “dispositive evidence” that SARS-CoV-2 originated from the Huanan market, China’s CDC published a preprint of its own that contained new data and pointed to a different conclusion. It revealed that, of the 457 swabs taken from 18 species of animals in the market, none contained any evidence of the virus. Rather, the virus was found in 73 swabs taken from around the market’s environment, all linked to human infections. Thus, while the samples proved the market served as an “amplifier” of viral spread, they did not prove the market was the source.

Meanwhile, an analysis published on March 16 in the medical journal BMJ Global Health, written by a group of Italian scientists and coauthored by Sergei Pond, cites a growing body of studies indicating that the virus may have been spreading worldwide for weeks, or even months, before the officially recognized start date of December 2019. If true, this would entirely upend the presumption of the market as the genesis of the pandemic.

“There are still a lot of credible questions that have not been answered,” says Pond. And with “no overwhelming evidence in either direction,” he adds, he is “puzzled as to why it’s necessary to push in one direction.” (Responding to written questions, Andersen said, “I have no particular stake in the idea that SARS-CoV-2 came from the market and not from virology research. The science speaks for itself and the evidence is clear.”)

Simon Wain-Hobson has his own hypothesis for what is taking place: The group of scientists pushing the claim of natural origin, he says, “want to show that virology is not responsible [for causing the pandemic]. That is their agenda.”

Using Covid as one of the reasons to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
Covid and war reshoring America Inc Asia Times March 24, 2022

For generations, American chief executive officers (CEOs) have believed it was their job to create global platforms that would maximize their short-term profits and hence their stock price (and their own compensation, which has been closely linked.)

It did not matter where their companies sold their products or services, where they obtained financing or where they developed or sold technology. Phil Knight of Nike was one of the first to take advantage of “Third World labor arbitrage” by producing his athletic shoes in China, India and Vietnam. “Globalization” became the rage as CEOs shuttered US factories and built new ones in Asia and Mexico.

But the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, increasingly cozy relations between China and Russia, and China’s own exertion of power internationally are challenging the conviction of CEOs that they can be truly “stateless.”
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As a correspondent based in Hong Kong and Beijing from 1979 to 1982, I witnessed the early stages of American companies moving into China. They (and I) believed that it was fine for them to pursue profits in China because it was ultimately in America’s best interests.
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China already is lending diplomatic support and is helping to disseminate Russia’s propaganda as part of its effort to tilt the “global discourse” away from Western control. That already represents key support for Russia because the control of opinion is so important. That already should serve as a cautionary flag to American CEOs heavily dependent on China as a market or manufacturing platform.

But what if it is revealed that the Chinese have provided technological or military support to Putin?
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American CEOs may be forced to move in the direction of how their predecessors behaved in World War II. Those business leaders created a war production board and organized themselves to make the things that America needed to prevail.

When the American system coalesces around common goals, as is often argued, it is the most powerful system in the world. It was acceptable to allow American companies to go global and stateless during the decades when the United States enjoyed unchallenged power.

But that era is now over. It’s time for American CEOs once again to start playing for the home team.

Russia has started releasing additional names from their BioLab investigation.

Who Are the Americans Coordinating Bioweapons Research in Ukraine Labs? Sputnik News March 31, 2022

The emails revealed the names of several American figures central to the biological research projects from the firms Metabiota and Black & Veatch, as well as officials from the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Those named include:

Robert Pope...Rhys M. Williams...Joanna Wintrol...Steven L. Edwards...Lance Lippencott...David Mustra...Mary Guttieri...Nita Madhav...Scott Thornton