{"id":432426,"date":"2021-04-16T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=432426"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:50:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T02:50:17","slug":"non-profit-that-funded-wuhan-lab-got-taxpayer-bailout-again-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/non-profit-that-funded-wuhan-lab-got-taxpayer-bailout-again-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Profit That Funded Wuhan Lab Got Taxpayer Bailout Again In 2021"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fnon-profit-that-funded-wuhan-lab-got-taxpayer-bailout-again-in-2021%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=432426&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, received a taxpayer-funded bailout in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The bailout was the second received by EcoHealth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. After receiving $738,861 in a bailout in May 2020, EcoHealth got an additional $719,570 in February of this year, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whitecoatwaste.org\/2021\/04\/16\/from-ppp-to-ppp-org-that-shipped-your-tax-to-the-wuhan-animal-lab-got-another-pandemic-bailout-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report from watchdog group Whitecoat Waste<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bailout funds were a part of federal COVID-19 relief packages passed under both the Trump and Biden administrations.<\/p>\n<p>EcoHealth Alliance head <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/house-committee-ecohealth-alliance-bat-coronaviruses-lab-wuhan-institute-of-virology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Daszak<\/a> was the only American member of the China-led World Health Organization Team dispatched to China to search for the origin of COVID-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/19\/nih-national-institutes-of-health-coronavirus-covid-19-china-wuhan-institute-virology-gain-of-function\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daszak has a past involving dangerous gain-of-function research<\/a> on bat-based coronaviruses, which some have speculated could have played a role in a potential lab-leak origin of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/15\/ecohealth-stevens-amendment-complaint-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint filed in March<\/a> alleged that EcoHealth violated federal law by not disclosing its <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/16\/wuhan-lab-eligible-taxpayer-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taxpayer funding<\/a>. As for Daszak, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/15\/world-health-organization-covid-19-coronavirus-investigation-peter-daszak-china-ecohealth-alliance-ralph-baric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it was revealed earlier in 2021<\/a> that he hid his involvement in organizing a pro-China, anti-lab-leak statement early in the coronavirus pandemic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/12\/world-health-organization-investigation-covid-19-coronavirus-origin-lab-leak-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Can The WHO\u2019s COVID-19 Investigation Be Trusted? Some Experts Say No)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.388379204893\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepGuthrie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepGuthrie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMGriffith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepMGriffith<\/a>, and I are urging NIH to lead a complete &amp; independent scientific investigation. We\u2019re also seeking answers from EcoHealth Alliance about their NIH-funded work at the Wuhan Lab of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>Read that new letter HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z2BmJYkAul\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z2BmJYkAul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CathyMcMorrisRodgers (@cathymcmorris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cathymcmorris\/status\/1383145801678008324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just weeks before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/21\/peter-daszak-manipulating-coronavirus-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daszak publicly discussed<\/a> how easy it is to manipulate bat-based viruses in a lab setting, and detailed his prior work on the subject. As a member of the WHO investigative team, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/who-investigators-wuhan-lab-database-peter-daszak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daszak helped convince<\/a> fellow investigators that a trove of missing data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/04\/nih-gain-of-function-anthony-fauci-review-board-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/a> was irrelevant to their search for the origins of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its history of helping move U.S. grant money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, EcoHealth has been a key part of the lab-leak origin hypothesis, which posits that COVID-19 was leaked due to a lab accident after being manipulated for gain-of-function research. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/did-coronavirus-come-from-a-lab-covid-19-wuhan-china-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Coronavirus Come From A Lab? Ten Key Takeaways From A Shocking New Report)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/11\/tedros-who-lab-leak-theory-remains-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WHO has walked back<\/a> early claims that the lab-leak theory should be ruled out, and a growing number of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/26\/robert-redfield-former-cdc-director-lab-leak-theory-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">government officials<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/11\/dr-sanjay-gupta-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-much-more-informed-robert-redfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media figures<\/a> have expressed interest in the theory as a possible explanation for the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, which funneled millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, received a taxpayer-funded bailout in February 2021.The bailout was the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276166,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432426","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\/432426","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=432426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}