I think both @Dan_Eastwood and @Giltil are missing the point. The destruction of the samples was hardly unexpected. Funding for this biobank was withdrawn under the previous Palaszczuk ALP state government back in 2023:
Queensland Health withdraws QoVAX Covid-19 study funding
Explicitly:
… throwing the research trial, which has 10,000 participants, into doubt.
Therefore, if this dataset is of as “exceptional scientific and medical value” as Gilbert, the peripatetic Rebekah Barnett, or Janet Davies suggest, there has been two years in which to demonstrate its value by publishing significant results from it, or to obtain new funding for it.
Lacking either, it does not seem unreasonable that it finally gets closed down.
I will note that nothing about this demonstrates even the slightest relevance to RFK Jr’s decision making.
