Things are now in full swing. We are getting daily updates, and Friday is our target. We hope to hear all the samples are destroyed.

If the virus has been around for so long, there may have been dozens, hundreds or thousands of exposures to humans and nothing has happened so far when it comes to genetic recombination. That's good news, absolutely.

So 900 million in 8 months will not reach the target of global, equitable and timely access. One needs enough vaccine for 6.4 billion people and that is currently not in the cards.

This is the first time that a global network of [Rockefeller-directed infectious disease surveillance outposts and] laboratories are sharing information, samples, blood, pictures.

The most exciting, or perhaps disturbing, finding.

Globally it's unbalanced. There would be more bang for the buck if more were invested globally in pandemic vaccine development.

This is a real ray of sunshine.

This is fridge temperature, so if someone touches something with a SARS contaminated hand, it would stay for four days on something in the fridge.

Based on this progress, we think the risk to human health from the distribution of these samples has been sharply decreased. With the ongoing destruction, we are optimistic.