Christian Drosten
 Christian Drosten    (Epidemiologist, Pharma lobbyist) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Christian Heinrich Maria Drosten 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Frankfurt am Main | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Robert Koch Institute | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest of | Corona Investigative Committee, Viviane Fischer, Reiner Fuellmich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Germany's "real face of the coronavirus crisis", Big pharma
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Dr. Christian Heinrich Maria Drosten is a German virologist whose research focus is on novel viruses (emergent viruses). During the Covid-19 pandemic, Drosten came to national prominence as an expert on the implications and actions required to combat the outbreak in Germany.[1] The commercially-controlled media response in Germany was massively dominated by his changing opinions on how dangerous SARS-COV-2 'really' is.[2]
Contents
"Corona-explainer-in-chief"
During the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic, Drosten was called by The Guardian as "the German country's real face of the coronavirus crisis", who also noted that the Süddeutsche Zeitung had described Drosten as "the nation's corona-explainer-in-chief".[1] He was a counterpart to Lothar Wieler, head of the State's Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, in consulting to German federal and state authorities.[1]
Research
Drosten is one of the co-discoverers of SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-COV-1) in 2002 and received a price for developing a test so timely. [3]
Funding
- In 2004, Drosten received the GlaxoSmithKline funding award.[citation needed]
- post-doctoral award for virology from the Robert Koch Institute
Mixed messages
Concerning SARS-COV-2 he said that antibodies may develop naturally[4] and also may be already present (so called background immunity). On the other hand he accuses virologists critical of the stay-at-home orders as being "irresponsible", specially the study by his colleague Dr. Hendrik Streeck.[5] He also changed course when saying "he assumes the statistics are distorted" [4] referring to the government's Robert Koch Institute (RKI) high numbers of tests carried out (leading to a high number of "cases"), which is a bit hypocritical because Drosten worked closely with RKI. He initiated more serious research, he said (after the state of emergency has been declared and our freedoms are gone).[4]
PCR test
Drosten developed a test for SARS-COV-2, ready to be sold at 5x the normal price in January 2020, which was quickly accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO) who sent test kits to affected regions.[6]
Test detects SARS-like viruses that preexisted worldwide before Wuhan
Corona viruses are detected by a probability based method. Viruses mutate constantly and a window has to be defined, in which a common denominator can be found. This window has been defined in such a way that preexisting viruses were detected. [7] "We are currently not measuring the incidence of coronavirus diseases, but the activity of the specialists searching for them." says Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg. "Without Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Tests there would be no reason for special alarms". Coronaviruses are anything but 'novel'. [8] nCoV-2019 shares 79% of its genome with SARS-CoV from 2002 and binds to the same receptors in humans. [9]
Other activities
- World Health Summit 2020, Member of the Scientific Committee.[10]
- An incomplete list of his numerous affiliations, special advice and coordinating activities in international and European bodies can be found in his english CV.[11]
WP page of interest
References
Sponsor
| Event | Description |
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| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health. |
- ↑ a b c https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/coronavirus-meet-the-scientists-who-are-now-household-names
- ↑ "The virologist Christian Drosten guides Germany through the pandemy." https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/christian-drosten-coronavirus-pandemic-germany-virologist-charite/komplettansicht
- ↑ https://www.bnitm.de/aktuelles/mitteilungen/113-virologen-des-tropeninstituts-erhalten-preis-der-werner-otto-stiftung/
- ↑ a b c https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Nun-doch-Hinweise-auf-Hintergrundimmunitaet-article21738615.html
- ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/international/der-virologe-hendrik-streeck-forscht-mitten-im-corona-hotspot-ld.1550667 (no reports of this study in the english commercially-controlled media?)
- ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-020-00002-2
- ↑ Drostens test detects SARS-like viruses, that preexisted worldwide before Wuhan. „These virus-positive samples stemmed from European rhinolophid bats. Detection of these phylogenetic outliers within the SARS-related CoV clade suggests that all Asian viruses are likely to be detected.“ https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045#html_fulltext
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-are-currently-not-measuring-the-incidence-of-coronavirus-diseases-but-the-activity-of-the-specialists-searching-for-them/5708477
- ↑ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/genomic-characterization-of-2019-nCoV-Lancet-1-29-2020.pdf
- ↑ https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/about-whs/leadership.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20200323093853/https://www.worldhealthsummit.org/about/leadership.html
- ↑ https://www.bundesaerztekammer.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/pdf-Ordner/WB/Lebenslaeufe/Drosten.pdf
