More than 900 pages of documents released detail U.S.-funded research by EcoHealth Alliance on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
As reported by The Intercept, the documents describe the work of EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal funding to conduct research at the Chinese lab. These documents include two previously unpublished grant proposals funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as project updates relating to the research.
The documents were released following ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation by The Intercept against the National Institute of Health.
“This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” Gary Ruskin, the executive director of U.S. Right to Know, said.
Indeed, one of the grants, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” details an effort spearheaded by EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak to screen thousands of bat samples for coronavirus. The research also included screening people who work with live animals.
The grant provided EcoHealth Alliance with a whopping $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans.
The grant proposal even warned of the potential dangers associated with experiments of this kind.
“Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled,” one warning read.
The documents also included information on key experimental work with humanized mice that was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as previously believed.
As reported by Zero Hedge:
The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronavirusesone not been previously disclosed publiclywas more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed
and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity, but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.
The materials further reveal that the grants also supported the constructionin Wuhanof novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spike genes from one MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus.
The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.
“Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about.”
— Dr. Fauci after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accuses him of lying to Congress about gain-of-function research in Wuhan lab. pic.twitter.com/aGhn3ua9r0
— The Recount (@therecount) July 20, 2021
“We applied for grants to conduct research,” Robert Kessler, communications manager at EcoHealth Alliance, said. “The relevant agencies deemed that to be important research, and thus funded it. So I don’t know that there’s a whole lot to say.”
The second grant, “Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots of Southeast Asia, was granted in August of 2020 and goes through 2025. The proposal focuses on scaling-up and deploying resources in Asia in the event of an outbreak of an “emergent infectious disease,” referring to Asia as the “hottest of the [emergent infectious disease] hotspots.”
Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute, believes the documents demonstrate that the EcoHealth Alliance has reason to take the lab leak theory seriously.
“In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is,” Chan said. “They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten and they keep records of everyone who got bitten. Does EcoHealth have those records? And if not, how can they possibly rule out a research-related accident?”
“I wish that this document had been released in early 2020,” Chan said of the grant document. “It would have changed things massively, just to have all of the information in one place, immediately transparent, in a credible document that was submitted by EcoHealth Alliance.”
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Surprise surprise – Fauci lied again
And I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus research at Wuhan.
Read this thread and the papers released. https://t.co/zQizKXLdbd
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 7, 2021
"NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of US-funded research on..coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing..work of..EcoHealth Alliance..at the Chinese lab.."https://t.co/n3OkFAq3kM
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021
The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021
We’ve known this for awhile now but it’s good to have confirmation. But, what difference will it make? Will Fauci be held to account? Will he at least be fired? Will he be in prison like he should be?
I won’t hold my breath for any of those things to happen.
Dr. Fauci’s nose continues to grow much more rapidly then usual.
At the BARE MINIMUM he should be fired.. IF he was to get TRUE justice, he would
A) Be charged with CAPITAL PERJURY
B) one count of Negligent homicide, for EVERY DEATH COVID has caused in the US..
But like you, i won’t hold my breath waiting for EITHER to happen.
Seems to me that Fauci lied and people died. So much about this is being covered up. I wonder, should they ever be able to dig into it, how much dirt their is regarding the vaccine; everything from who profits from it to what it actually is experimenting with.
It is no wonder so many people have stopped trusting ‘science’ when science is working to actually hurt them.
This piece of garbage must be tried and hung.
Hung, drawn, and quartered. THEN his body parts, fed into a wood chipper, and spread out over the white house lawn!
Hey Senator Rand Paul…
Doesn’t it feel GREAT to be VINDICATED?
YOU have been asserting (all along) that NIH was, INDEED, funding “Gain of Function” research (including at WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology]) – something Dr. Fauci SPECIFICALLY stated (under oath) that they DID NOT.
Given the number of Trump people who were PERSECUTED (and some validly prosecuted) – over NOTHING (and falsified “evidence”), one would THINK that prosecuting Fauci for LYING to Congress would be a “no brainer”… BUT, sadly, given the politicization of the Department of Justice, I don’t have ANY confidence this will happen (not under THIS administration)!
NOW let’s see IF Rand paul, DOES ANYTHING about it!
And the glaring error that the story misses is that Faki could not have given the money without the approval of Obama and Biden and the Democrats in Congress.
Fauci is now a PROVEN liar.
Do not believe ANYTHING he has ever said or may say in the future.
NOTHING that Fauci says is true. Nothing at all.
Most of us knew he was a liar before now.. THIS Just solidifies it!
Take him into custody before he flees to china.
WHY? What does he have to fear from our dept of INJUSTICE< or our feckless congress?