{"id":1672935,"date":"2022-10-04T20:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T00:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672935"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T00:35:11","slug":"fauci-defends-funding-of-ecohealth-dismisses-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-defends-funding-of-ecohealth-dismisses-lab-leak-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci Defends Funding of EcoHealth, Dismisses Lab Leak Theory"},"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\">18<\/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-defends-funding-of-ecohealth-dismisses-lab-leak-theory%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=1672935&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>Anthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), defended his agency\u2019s decision of awarding millions of dollars to an organization that has funded risky virus research in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based nonprofit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ecohealth\">EcoHealth<\/a> Alliance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/nih-continues-pouring-millions-into-organization-that-funded-wuhan-lab_4771828.html\">received roughly $3 million<\/a> in grants from the NIAID in late September, the largest annual amount the agency has awarded the group, despite scrutiny over EcoHealth\u2019s partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the facility that many believe may have started the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something is peer-reviewed, gets a high recommendation for funding, you can\u2019t arbitrarily decide, \u2018I just don\u2019t want to fund it\u2019 because people don\u2019t like them,\u201d Fauci said in an Oct. 4 virtual webinar hosted by the University of South California\u2019s Center for Health Journalism. \u201cIf they ever brought that to court, they could sue us and win that in a microsecond. So you\u2019ve got to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new grants came just weeks after the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to which NIAID belongs, terminated an Ecohealth sub-award to the Wuhan lab. The NIH told the House Oversight Committee that the Chinese facility had twice declined their requests to hand over laboratory records so that they could review the research.<\/p>\n<p> Fending Off Criticism <\/p>\n<p>The Wuhan facility, during the 2018 to 2019 grant period, conducted experiments that made bat coronaviruses more lethal, which some experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/newly-released-documents-show-nih-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-china-experts_4061437.html\">said<\/a> met the definition of gain-of-function research\u2014experiments that make a virus more deadly or infectious.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he was confident that \u201cEcoHealth is a good funding partner\u201d despite criticism about its lack of transparency over virus research, Fauci insisted that the two were separate matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like saying that there is a grant from an institution in the United States, that something really bad about that grant, and therefore, you shouldn\u2019t give<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), defended his agency\u2019s decision of awarding millions of dollars to an organization that has funded risky virus research in Wuhan. 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