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Dr Fauci Backed Wuhan Lab with $ for Risky Coronavirus Research
Over “200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem..is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident” in Wuhan
@Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
Dr Fauci Backed Wuhan Lab with $ for Risky Coronavirus Research
Over “200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem..is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident” in Wuhan
@Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
Here’s a detailed 15min video investigation by UK PM David Cameron’s former Downing Street adviser @SteveHiltonx for his @NextRevFNC show on @FoxNews
The investigation is damning & implicates Dr Fauci & others.
Hilton calls for Fauci’s resignation. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6225847837001#sp=show-clips
The investigation is damning & implicates Dr Fauci & others.
Hilton calls for Fauci’s resignation. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6225847837001#sp=show-clips
Here are some further extracts from the @Newsweek article:
“last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses”
“last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses”
“Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release”
“with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7m over 6 years for research that included some gain-of-function work.. followed another $3.7m, 5-year project for collecting & studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4m”
“U.S. intelligence, after originally asserting that the coronavirus had occurred naturally, conceded last month that the pandemic may have originated in a leak from the Wuhan lab”
“included additional..gain-of-function research for the purpose of understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance..under the direction of..Peter Daszak” (who had co-written a @TheLancet article preempting these claims)
“According to Richard Ebright, infectious disease expert at Rutgers..(the) description refers to experiments that..enhance the ability of bat coronavirus to infect human..and laboratory animals using..genetic engineering. In the wake of the pandemic, that is a noteworthy detail”
“in 2014, under pressure from the Obama administration, the National of Institutes of Health instituted a moratorium on the work, suspending 21 studies.”
“Three years later, though—in December 2017—the NIH ended the moratorium and the second phase of the NIAID project, which included the gain-of-function research, began.”
My note:
Responses by those implicated deny the virus was *created*.
BUT to imply this was *leaked* from a lab in Wuhan does not necessarily imply it was created. Though it *might* have evolved
Regardless, the working thesis so far is that a natural virus *accidentally* leaked
Responses by those implicated deny the virus was *created*.
BUT to imply this was *leaked* from a lab in Wuhan does not necessarily imply it was created. Though it *might* have evolved
Regardless, the working thesis so far is that a natural virus *accidentally* leaked
