NIH Documents Provide New Evidence US Funded Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

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>Grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Anthony Fauci. The award to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization which studies the spread of viruses from animals to humans, included subawards to Wuhan Institute of Virology and East China Normal University. The principal investigator on the grant is EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, who has been a key voice in the search for Covid-19’s origins.

The Intercept contain new evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, along with their collaborator, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have engaged in what the U.S. government defines as “gain-of-function research of concern,” intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them,

And here's the fun part:

despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose.

In other words - something very, very different from what the clickbaity title implies.

That doesn't surprise me from China. I'm not much of a conspiracy nut but... Also knowing the US they could be lying to cover their asses.

I thought Dr. Fauci just debunked this. Just like he stated that a mask was not necessary then.

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