NIH Reportedly Knew Grants to Researchers Were Dangerous, But Still Didn’t Monitor Them

The Office of the Inspector General has released a new report that examines the relationship between the National Institutes of Health, the EcoHealth Alliance, and the facilities that received grants.

The contents of the document do not reflect well upon either the NIH and the EcoHealth Alliance. They knew they were playing with fire and did not ensure safety when working with microbes.

The report’s title is quite seductive: NATIONAL INSTITUTES of HEALTH and ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE DIDN’T EFFECTIVELY MONITOR AWARDS OR SUBAWARDS. RESULTING in MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR OVERSEE RESEARCH, AND OTHER DEFICIENCIES.

Catchy title, as you would expect from the Inspector General’s office. They’re able to create dramatic scenes.

These are the results. Are dramatic. As explained by Hannah Cox from The White Coat Waste ProjectThe NIH had at least failed to make a crucial decision. And perhaps, given Dr. Fauci’s Research on gain-of function is a favorite hobbyIt was done intentionally. It is possible that we will never know this one way or the other.

Just published a statement by the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. New bombshell report The report focused on three grants made by the NIH to EcoHealth Alliance, a notorious nonprofit that they used as a cover-up organization. EcoHealth received $8 Million between 2014 and 2021. Some of that money was used to fund the Wuhan Lab.

The IG’s audit found a lack of oversight by The NIH and EcoHealth not only at the Chinese facility, but also in other labs that received these government grants.

“Although NIH and EcoHealth had established monitoring procedures, we found deficiencies in complying with those procedures limited NIH and EcoHealth’s ability to effectively monitor federal grant awards and subawards to understand the nature of the research conducted, identify potential problem areas, and take corrective action,” the Report said.

Rand Paul and other senators have been raising alarms about this issue for a while, but government officials have been trying to get around Dr. Anthony Fauci and the public health establishment. So much has been staked on their credibility–everything done over the past 2+ years surrounding COVID policies and the fiscal stimulus packages that are harming our economy–that almost no evidence can penetrate the stubborn insistence that everything done by these people is above board.

Senator Rand Paul, who has been at the forefront of bringing these matters to light and exposing Dr. Fauci’s lies, released a statement following the report that said, “The Inspector General confirms what we already knew—NIH failed to conduct oversight of EcoHealth Alliance’s grant awards. The continued funding of EcoHeath Alliance despite its repeated noncompliance with federal regulations and policies further demonstrates the need to reform oversight of risky research paid for the American taxpayers.”

As we have recently reportedEcoHealth Alliance received $3 million more from the Department of Defense.

It’s high past time that Congress fully investigates the origins of COVID, defunds EcoHealth Alliance, and reinstates a ban on gain-of-function research (one that we actively enforce this time around).

This was no minor flaw in the system. The report’s very first sentence makes it clear that the NIH knew they were playing on fire and did not do anything to lessen the possibility of an inferno. “Despite identifying potential risks associated with research being performed under the EcoHealth awards, we found that NIH did not effectively monitor or take timely action to address EcoHealth’s compliance with some requirements.”

That’s the essence of it 1. They did not sign the report. They knew nothing and did nothing.

They even wanted to. Or was this a wink and a nod to go ahead with dangerous research, at arm’s length from the NIH? I suspect so.

All of this raises another question: Why are we funding these efforts? It’s not like our scientists are actively working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the NIH apparently didn’t check in on some of the work for 2 years. Why spend the money if they aren’t interested in the results?

The procedures at NIH are, at most, broken. They are trying to bypass the restrictions placed on American researchers at worst.

Either way, it’s bad.