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Dr. Steven Quay is featured on the Dhru Purohit Podcast: A Deep Dive into Covid-19 Origins, Lab Leak, and the Next Pandemic

I was honored to be featured in the Dhru Purohit Podcast. Our discussion ventures into Covid-19 origins, the lab leak theory, and the next pandemic.

What's covered in this episode:

  • The two competing hypotheses of COVID-19 (7:13)
  • How SARS-CoV-1 began (12:23)
  • Gain of opportunity vs. gain of function research (13:46)
  • Dr. Quay’s research concluding that SARS-CoV-2 is laboratory-derived (17:19)
  • International inquiry into origins of this particular coronavirus (44:08)
  • The implications if we don’t learn the lessons of the true origin of SARS-CoV-2 (55:03)
  • Natural immunity vs. vaccinated immunity (1:11:17)
  • Understanding the omicron variant (1:14:21)
  • Tags: covid, covid lab leak, COVID-19, dhru purohit, dhru purohit podcast, Dr quay, dr steven quay, lab leak, Steven Quay, wuhan lab leak

Steven Quay is the founder of Seattle-based Atossa Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics and delivery methods for breast cancer and other breast conditions.

He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and was on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine. His contributions to medicine have been cited over 9,600 times. He has founded six startups, invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, and holds 87 US patents. Over 80 million people have benefited from the medicines he invented.

His current passion is the prevention of the two million yearly breast cancer cases worldwide.

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