{"id":1668875,"date":"2022-10-02T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668875"},"modified":"2022-10-02T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:20:33","slug":"fauci-pal-at-center-of-covid-lab-leak-suspicions-gets-new-bat-virus-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-pal-at-center-of-covid-lab-leak-suspicions-gets-new-bat-virus-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Pal At Center Of COVID Lab-Leak Suspicions Gets New Bat Virus Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-pal-at-center-of-covid-lab-leak-suspicions-gets-new-bat-virus-grant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/unmasked-documents-reveal-faucis-staggering-pandemic-period-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a> has steered another lucrative grant to study bat viruses to the same company suspected of conducting gain-of-function research at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/scientists-believed-coronavirus-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-but-top-u-s-official-warned-against-debate-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mysterious Chinese laboratory<\/a> where some experts believe COVID-19 was hatched.<\/p>\n<p>EcoHealth Alliance last month began a multi-year study of \u201cviral sequences and isolates for use in vaccine development,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/0jAp779zVkaN-DEsKnKa5A\/project-details\/10522470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<\/a>, which Fauci runs. The $3.3 million study, which involves bats and coronaviruses, is set to run through August 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be noted that EcoHealth Alliance was awarded a new NIH grant ten days ago, providing an additional $3.3 M over five years for a project including high-risk virus discovery research in bats in southeast Asia,\u201d tweeted Rutgers University Professor of Chemical Biology Richard Ebright, who has been a frequent critic of Fauci and believes the virus was likely man-made.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This must be a joke. Please tell me this is a joke. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NIH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nih<\/a> just gave <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EcoHealthNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EcoHealthNYC<\/a> and Peter Daszak a NEW grant for bat coronavirus research?<\/p>\n<p>Including supplying \u201cviral sequences and isolates for use in vaccine development\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Nope. Not a joke.<\/p>\n<p>The joke, apparently, is on us. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b4p2fORn0u\">pic.twitter.com\/b4p2fORn0u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexBerenson\/status\/1576377456772218882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EcoHealth Alliance, run by Fauci pal Peter Daszak, has been the focus of suspicion that the virus that has killed more than 6 million people worldwide may have been created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology through gain of function research, work that purposely makes viruses more transmissible and deadly in order to develop antidotes.<\/p>\n<p>EcoHealth received a $3.7 million grant from NIAID in 2014 for a project titled \u201cUnderstanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence\u201d and sent more than $600,000 of the funds to the Wuhan lab. Daszak worked closely with Shi Zhengli, known as the Wuhan lab \u201cbat lady.\u201d Daszak was also part of the World Health Organization-China team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/who-chief-tedros-condemns-premature-push-dismiss-lab-leak-hypothesis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed<\/a>\u00a0the lab leak hypothesis as \u201cextremely unlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has insisted that no gain of function research, which was illegal at the time, took place at the Wuhan lab using U.S. taxpayer funds. But Lawrence Tabak, the NIH\u2019s principal deputy director, said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-energycommerce.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Year-5-EHA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>\u00a0last year that EcoHealth admitted the NIH grant was used to infect humanized mice with modified bat coronaviruses that made them sicker.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has repeatedly accused Fauci of funding dangerous research and then changing the NIH definition of the term to avoid culpability while funding the creation of unnatural and deadly viruses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour repeated denials have worn thin and the majority of Americans, frankly, don\u2019t believe you,\u201d Paul told Fauci last November in a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill. \u201cYour persistent denials are not just a stain on your reputation but are a clear and present danger to the country and to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve changed the definition on your website to cover your ass,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci told Paul and other lawmakers on the Senate Health Committee that Paul was \u201cegregiously incorrect in what he says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator, with all due respect, I disagree with so many of the things you\u2019ve said,\u201d Fauci responded. \u201cFirst of all, gain of function is a very nebulous term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has said he will retire in December. Republicans are expected to recapture the House and potentially the Senate, and will likely launch new probes into what, if any, role Fauci and Daszak played in funding the creation of the deadly COVID virus.<\/p>\n<p>The new grant comes despite legislation introduced last week by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) that would bar federal funding to EcoHealth Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiving taxpayer money to EcoHealth to study pandemic prevention is like paying a suspected arsonist to conduct fire safety inspections,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/09\/30\/joni-ernst-legislation-prohibit-federal-funding-ecohealth-alliance-wuhan-institute-virology\/\">Ernst told The Daily Caller<\/a>. \u201cNIH got it right when it canceled the funding for the experiments EcoHealth Alliance was conducting with China\u2019s state-run Wuhan Institute. In addition to violating multiple federal laws, EcoHealth has still not turned over documents about these dangerous studies that NIH has requested on multiple occasions that could offer vital clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci has steered another lucrative grant to study bat viruses to the same company suspected of conducting gain-of-function research at the mysterious Chinese laboratory where some experts believe COVID-19 was hatched. EcoHealth Alliance last month began a multi-year study of \u201cviral sequences and isolates for use in vaccine development,\u201d according to a grant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1668877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1668877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}