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Raj Punjabi

Oct 8, 2026

5:48
Redfield is?
5:50
Well, I learned in the situation room when you have ambiguous signal like this, it's dangerous to assign risk when you don't know what the pathogen is.
5:58
So I would say it's uncertain.
6:00
And I agree with Dr. Redfield that Transparency is critical.
6:04
At this point, days out, you have a researcher who died in an institute that certainly knows how to do genomic sequencing, and we don't yet have a sequence of whatever pathogen she died from.
6:16
That should be available within days, and that can tell us and settle whether this is a natural pathogen, a lab strain, or something altered.
6:25
And that's the reason President Trump should push President Putin for that level of transparency.
6:46
Cause for concern?

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