Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab – WSJ

Of particular interest: From 2014-19, the National Institutes of Health sent $3.4 million to the WIV through the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. I just wanted to say a personal thankyou on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin, EcoHealth Alliance chief Peter Daszak gushed to Dr. Fauci in a partly redacted April 2020 email. Your comments are brave, and coming from your trusted voice, will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus origins.

The NIH money was spent on researching bat coronaviruses, and it s likely the WIV conducted gain-of-function research to make them more deadly or infectious. In a February 2020 email, Dr. Fauci sent his deputy Hugh Auchincloss a paper about gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. Read this paper, he ordered. You will have tasks today that must be done. His deputy commented on the paper and said they would try to determine if we have any distant ties to this work abroad.

Dr. Fauci has since said his outfit didn t fund gain-of-function research; the EcoHealth Alliance funding was meant to go to collecting samples. But I can t guarantee everything that s going on in the Wuhan lab, we can t do that, Dr. Fauci said Wednesday in an interview with NewsNation Now.

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