Former EcoHealth Alliance VP says Fauci-funded group 'developed' COVID-19
A former vice president for the EcoHealth Alliance, a major funder of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, claims that his organization "developed" SARS-CoV-2 through gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous.
Former EcoHealth Alliance VP says Fauci-funded group 'developed' COVID-19 | Just The News
Fascinating, though most has been published in one form or another, the full document helps put all the pieces together for those who havent been playing from home
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://renz-law.com/wp-content/uploads/Senator-Johnson-Final.pdf
Loved this part as a ZH reader and recalling when they got Twtter banned for saying exactly this almost 2 years ago..
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There are several follow-up emails between the parties but the most important are those that
discuss the need to talk to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros. An email of
particular interest is from Farrar to Fauci and NIH Director Collins, which was shared with
others: “Tedros and Bernhard have apparently gone into conclave ... they need to decide today in
my view. If they do prevaricate, I would appreciate a call with you later tonight or tomorrow to
think how we might take forward [sic].”96
In this email, Farrar expressed concern about an article
published by ZeroHedge which discussed the potential lab release as the origin of the virus.97
Subsequently ZeroHedge was banned from Twitter.
On February 3 2021, Tedros delivered a Report of the Director-General, 146th Meeting of the
Executive Board, during which he emphasized the importance of controlling the spread of
misinformation and announced that WHO was working with Google “to make sure people
searching for information about coronavirus see WHO information at the top of their search
results. Social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Tencent and Tiktok have also taken
steps to limit the spread of misinformation.”98 The proper term to describe this might be
“censorship.”
In March 2020, a statement of support for the idea that SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted from an
animal to a human was published in the Lancet. 99 It was signed by many people including Peter
Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance and Christian Drosten. Then things start to get very
interesting.
EcoHealth Alliance is the organization that received money from NIAID and distributed it to
Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Shi Zhengli, a virologist
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referred to as the “bat lady” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The money was earmarked for
gain-of-function research. Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that the “statement of
solidarity” that appeared in the Lancet was actually drafted by Peter Daszak.100
Apparently, Ralph Baric was shown drafts of Daszak’s letter but was informed by Daszak that he
did not need to sign the statement. Baric agreed, stating that doing so would appear to be self-
serving. Daszak wrote that other key people would be looking at the letter and that it would be
“...put out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent
voice.”101 Daszak also wrote, “Please note that this statement will not have EcoHealth Alliance
logo on it and will not be identifiable as coming from any one organization or person, the idea is to
have this as a community supporting our colleagues.”102 This shows deliberate intent to hide the
relationships between the parties. Indeed, five of the signers of this “solidarity statement” were
directly affiliated with EcoHealth Alliance103 and two were partners of EcoHealth.104
Christian Drosten is another signer of the solidary statement. He also has an interesting
background. Drosten and his colleagues had published an article in Eurosurveillance on Jan 23,
2020, in which they claimed to have developed a RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2.105
There were several problems with this paper, including the fact that that this group did not have SARS-CoV-
2 viral material at the time that the article was published. The researchers acknowledged this,
writing: “We aimed to develop and deploy robust diagnostic methodology for use in public
health laboratory settings without having virus material available.”106 Instead, the group relied on
theoretical sequences which were provided by a lab in China. Despite this, the test was
immediately endorsed by World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom. A large
group of scientists has called for this paper to be retracted for many reasons, including
undisclosed conflicts of interest for some of the authors and lack of peer review.107
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The bottom line: both Daszak and Drosten had significant motivation to keep the actual origin of
the virus, their knowledge about it, and other details a secret; as did Fauci and other employees
of the NIH and NIAID.
Kristian Andersen, who had, in late January, written to Fauci expressing his concerns that SARS-
Co-V-2 included sequences that appeared to be manmade, led a group that published an article in
Nature on March 17, 2020, in support of the theory that the virus was transmitted from animals
to humans.108 After this, Andersen received a generous grant from the National Institutes of
Health. At this time, we have no way of knowing if this was a form of quid pro quo, but it can at
least be said that this does not pass the “smell test.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci continued to insist that gain-of-function research was not responsible for
the creation of SARS-CoV-2 and stated under oath when testifying in front of a Senate
Committee that neither his agency nor the National Institute of Health funded gain-of-function
research. In response to questions from Senator Rand Paul he said, “
With all due respect, you
are entirely, completely incorrect.” He added that the NIH “...has not and does not now fund
gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”109
