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INTERCEPT: Fauci led NIAID funded construction of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses at Wuhan Biolab

ThinkCivics Newswire by ThinkCivics Newswire
September 7, 2021
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INTERCEPT: Fauci led NIAID funded construction of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses at Wuhan Biolab

The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images. Dr. Anthony Fauci. Image: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly

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Everyone remembers Dr. Anthony Fauci and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) clash during a heated exchange over gain-of-function research. Senator Paul accused Dr. Fauci of lying about NIH funding of Wuhan coronavirus funding.

However, newly released documents published by The Intercept on Monday following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request shed some light on what the NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance entailed.

EXCERPT from the Intercept:

NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing the work of EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as project updates relating to EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic.

The documents were released in connection with ongoing Freedom of Information Act litigation by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health. The Intercept is making the full documents available to the public.

“This is a road map to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19.

One of the grants, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” outlines an ambitious effort led by EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses. The research also involved screening people who work with live animals. The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed. The documents raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that Daszak has aggressively dismissed.

Summary from Dr. Richard H. Ebright molecular biologist professor at Rutgers:

“The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the NIAID, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic.”

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021

The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in federal policies in effect in 2017-present.

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021

The materials further reveal that the the grants also supported the construction–in Wuhan–of novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spike genes from one MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus.

— 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

 

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