Did you know?

Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID has funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology since 2014, renewing every year until now?

On 5/27/2014, the NIAID granted $666,442 to the Wuhan Institute to "This project will examine the risk of future coronavirus emergence from wildlife."

They go on to say that they plan to spend the next six years studying specifically wildlife markets in China, including serological and molecular screening of people working in wet markets.

"Spillover potential" studies asses ability of the virus to jump from animals to humans.

They analyzed host receptors and novel CoV genes. In addition, there would be mathematical matrix models to study its ability to evolve, the transmission rates between hosts, and viral sharing.

They would test and predict transmission, conduct experiments on host range utilizing reverse genetics.

They would also experiment with pseudovirus and receptor binding assays.

Experiments would also include infecting cell cultures of species & humanized mice.

Humanized mice were introduced into viral studies in 2008 by funding from the National Institute of Health and research conducted by several NIH units including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

One of the researchers that worked with the NIAID on this is Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance. The organization researches pandemics and prioritizes a "One Health" approach to their methods-- a sentiment shared by the WHO, UN, Gates Foundaton, etc.

Daszak has served on committees of the International Union of the Conservation of Nature, WHO, National Academy of Sciences, and the Department of the Interior.

https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/research/center-infection-and-immunity/peter-daszak-phd

He worked in conjunction with Zhengli Shi, a senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

He has previously received funding for his virology research from the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dr. Fauci, Trevor Mundel (president of global health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and Peter Daszak have all presented at a Emerging Infectious Diseases seminar hosted by Boston University.

They also served on a panel in 2013 for the Rockefeller Foundation.

Kinda makes sense that Fauci would say @realDonaldTrump would be facing a surprise outbreak.

He helped them engineer and fund it for over half a decade. Even had the wet markets in China lined up as the perfect spot to introduce it.

"We are trying to get our epidemiologists & our scientists, who before this CV situation had long been collaborating, with our Chinese scientific colleagues. There's a big difference between our Chinese colleagues & Chinese government."

- Anthony Fauci, 2/9/2020
@newtgingrich

"They have have been much more transparent now, we think."
"In the first few weeks of the outbreak, they were telling the Chinese people that this was just an animal to human infection. Which, I think originally it was."

- Anthony Fauci, 2/9/2020
@newtgingrich

"I believe they feel because the horse is a bit out of the barn here, in order to prevent the total spread of infection out of Wuhan, which CLEARLY is the epicenter: Wuhan, in the province of Hubei-- they may prevent further spread."

- Anthony Fauci, 2/9/2020
@newtgingrich

For SIX YEARS the NIAID funded efforts to prepare for and contain THIS VIRUS.

IN WUHAN.

What happened?
What came of this?
What happened to molecular screening?
Surely they would have found it.

What did that $3,748,715 actually do? Where did it go?

https://taggs.hhs.gov/Detail/AwardDetail?arg_AwardNum=R01AI110964&arg_ProgOfficeCode=104

This research in Wuhan included GAIN OF FUNCTION research. The final total of this research was over $7.4 MILLION.

Gain of function manipulation viruses in labs explores potential for spread to humans.

It has been widely criticized because it also, duh, creates massive risk.

"In a previous R01 we found that bats in southern China harbor an extraordinary diversity of SARSr-CoVs, some of which can use human ACE2 to enter cells, infect humanized mouse models causing SARS-like illness, and evade available therapies or vaccines."

- NIH Report

"Questions remain on origin, diversity, capacity to cause illness, and risk of spillover of these viruses.

In this R01 renewal we will address these issues through 3 specific aims:

1. Characterize diversity & distribution of high spillover-risk SARSr-CoVs in bats in China."

"We will sequence receptor binding domains (spike proteins) to identify viruses with the highest potential for spillover which we will include in our experimental investigations."

Sound familiar yet?

"We will use S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential."

https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9819304&icde=49645421

"We will combine these data with bat host distribution, viral diversity and phylogeny, human survey of risk behaviors and illness, and serology to identify SARSr-CoV spillover risk hotspots across southern China."

https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9819304&icde=49645421

SARS-CoV-2 binds to the ACE2 receptor in human lungs and other organs incredibly well.

Richard Ebright, and infectious disease expert at Rutgers, said experiments like these would enhance the ability of bat CV to infect human cells via genetic engineering.

You don't say.

In 2011, Fauci was criticized for supporting Gain of Function research in bird flus, but he promoted the work regardless. He said research was worth the risk.

Research involved taking wild viruses & passing through live animals until mutating into a form posing pandemic threat.

In 2014, the National Institute of Health suspended most (but not all) Gain of Function research.

Until three years later in December 2017, the NIH ended the pause so they could begin the second phase of the NIAID project, but kept all details a secret.

"We have serious doubts about whether these experiments should be conducted at all. With deliberations kept behind closed doors, none of us will have the opportunity to understand how the government arrived at these decisions or to judge the rigor and integrity of that process."

That was written by Tom Inglesby of Johns Hopkins and Marc Lipsitch of Harvard.

Clearly, that was not a concern for the gain of function research in Wuhan for the NIAID.

Sources:
Fauci in 2011 Defends Gain of Function
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-flu-virus-risk-worth-taking/2011/12/30/gIQAM9sNRP_story.html

Harvard GoF Opinion Piece:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/opinion/eliminating-deadly-viruses.html

U.S. Funding GoF Research (2019):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-is-funding-dangerous-experiments-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about/2019/02/27/5f60e934-38ae-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html

In Summary:

Dr. Fauci, you have some MAJOR explaining to do.

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