The Berlin symposium was held one year after the US government declared a moratorium on gain-of-function research.
As it so happens, Drosten himself has been involved in gain-of-function research, as the below screen shot from the webpage of the German RAPID project makes clear.

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

There was an interesting bit of information on German involvement with gain of function research in China, with Angela Merkel making a visit to Wuhan in September as preliminary testing in America using fake cigarettes was spreading this plague as this blog noted.

Merkel was in China at the very epicenter of what we all now know was a deliberate spread of a deliberate release of a coronavirus, that did not come out of Ann Coulter's bat's ass. While Anthony Fauci is the doctor death in this of masking the innocent up and murdering them with Remdesvir, nothing of the German involvement has surfaced until now.

Curious: Angela Merkel’s September 2019 Visit to Wuhan

The Russians on the other hand were linking the Germans to the US bioweapons industry in Ukraine, and interestingly, there was a huge pushback by internet fact checkers to clear the Germans. That is odd as one can not find an end to stories about how vile the Germans are in every way.

This becomes more interesting in Frau Merkel is the one who told the world that Minks was deception to buy time to arm Ukraine to destroy Russia. Germany was at the forefront of this operation.

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I can recall that it was the Obama regime who turned to Tel Aviv to create the Stuxnet virus against Iran and it was German intelligence that implanted that virus in Iran.

Then there is Germany at the epicenter of the North Stream pipeline terrorism, in the British trying to save themselves produced evidence of the bombers were in a German port and sailing on a German vessel.

Germany has not been harmed at all in the ending of Russian gas imports, as Germany is sucking LNG out of the United States, spiking prices for Americans, in another oddity of events happen and no one suspects the Germans.

German is MERCK of the COVID vax fortunes.

Merck Group

German multinational science and technology company

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Summary

The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and present in 66 countries.

Interestingly I seem to recall Jeff Rense mentioning that MERCK was attempting to acquire Ivomec and did so in India to shut down the use of that life saving drug.

There seems to be a great deal more to this in German fingerprints are smoking all over this, and in this hand to dominate the world, Germany is winning, as it just shut down the American Fed over banking collapses, took over Switzerland in Credit Suisse an is benefiting immensely as the party in all of these gambits that no one is looking at.