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Nope, a panel of virologists and related researchers with the same scientific understanding in the field should make these decisions.

>>teh_kl+(OP)
It's ok to have wishful thinking. Plenty of grants include virologists and epidemiologists, so your proposal isn't practical.

>>djenen+M
Sure, they could provide anecdotal input based on past outbreaks, but they don't have the biological expertise to decide solely on what research should or could be carried out.

>>teh_kl+c1
Anecdotally, that's not my experience with epi people. A fair few come from a bio/medicine background with a sufficient amount of experience in wet lab and theory to be considered a 'double threat'. Choose your own team.

>>djenen+c3
"Anecdotally"

>>teh_kl+c4
That was a reference to your previous comment. Does anecdotal count for nothing? Fine, run a survey of virologists and epidemiologists and report the intersection of set. It will not be arbitrarily small.

>>djenen+D4
I looked through the grant. To my eye, I consider some of the participants as epidemiologists.