The United States has a behind-the-scenes plan to combat coronavirus & mdash; Wall Street Journal

A shadow group of American scientists and billionaires is developing the Manhattan Project to Combat Coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported on April 28. According to the publication, the group includes leading scientists of the country and several billionaires and industrialists. They said they had already found an unofficial way to present the plan they had developed to the White House. The publication reports that this group calls its work the Manhattan Project of the Isolation Era, drawing parallels to the creation of an atomic bomb during World War II. One scientist, biologist Michael Rosbash, the 2017 Nobel Prize winner, openly declared his participation in the group and stressed that he considered himself the least qualified of all participants. The group brokered for pharmaceutical companies seeking reliable contacts with decision makers in the Trump administration The group produced a public-closed 17-page report calling for unorthodox methods to combat coronavirus. One is to treat patients with powerful Ebola drugs, but in much higher dosages, according to The Wall Street Journal. The publication claims that the report has already been handed over to members of the U.S. government, U.S. Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, and Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the coronavirus group. It is emphasized that the group's Manhattan Project of the face isolation era often advises Pence's aides. We can fail, quoted group member Stuart Schreiber, a Harvard University chemist. But if things work out, it could change the world. Members of the group, among other things, suggest launching a nationwide smartphone app through which US residents will have to confirm daily that they don 't have 14 symptoms of a cold or fever. In summary, the Wall Street Journal reports that members of the group fear that their ideas may be ignored by the administration of incumbent President Donald Trump. According to official data, the US is the world's largest hotbed of coronavirus infection, as well as the leader in the number of COVID-19 deaths.