DeGrado- gimme a break already. Great career, but his skill set is not the x factor all here pretend it is. He is not a clinical trials specialist. He is not an epidemiologist.
How helpful was he when he coulda helped? With papers and grants? You know, the stuff he does all the time.
Did IP get a grant to look at other viruses? NO.
Did IP get more grants to investigate IP and B? Umm, NO.
Did IP produce a peer reviewed paper of B v C research? Sigh No. They have not even managed to do that. They submitterd prepub, and that was all/
He is a guy who knows the ins and outs of grants forward and backward- his entire career is running labs and getting grants and publishing papers.
So for the things that he knows how to do he has not been helpful so far as one can see.
And now his skill set is NOT what IP needs.