[Updated] Quick Update on Researcher Linked to Covid Lab Leak
Dr. Peter Daszak of EcoHealth barred from all US funding
Weeks of blows to EcoHealth, the US-based organization that worked with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for years prior to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, culminated yesterday with its president, Dr. Peter Daszak, being barred from all sources of federal funding. Additionally, the Biden Administration didn’t rule out a permanent ban on federal funding to Daszak, according to The Hill. (1)
A letter from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) held Daszak responsible for not properly monitoring WIV’s work with coronavirus as well as not reporting China’s risky research to its funding agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
HHS cited Daszak’s failure to inform NIH that the Wuhan lab had created a virus “that was stronger than permissible thresholds,” violating the terms of EcoHealth’s grant, The Hill reported. (1)
Benjamin Mueller reported May 15 in the New York Times that among the lapses in reporting to NIH was “EcoHealth’s failure to promptly report findings from studies on how well bat coronaviruses grow in mice.” (2)
Despite the evidence linking EcoHealth’s collaboration with WIV and the subsequent production of a virus more dangerous than NIH’s “permissible thresholds,” federal health agencies continue to point to “an illegal wild-animal market in Wuhan” as the presumed origin of the pandemic-related coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. (2)
This is an unresolved scientific debate that ensnared numerous government researchers—including the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci—as well as university and foundation researchers in the US. We’ll continue to update this story as it evolves.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Nathaniel Weixel. “Biden administration suspends funding for scientist at center of COVID lab leak theory.” The Hill, May 22, 2024. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4679372-biden-administration-suspends-funding-for-peter-daszak-scientist-covid-lab-leak-theory/
2. Benjamin Mueller. “U.S. Suspends Funding for Group at Center of Covid Origins Fight.” New York Times, May 15, 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/health/ecohealth-alliance-peter-daszak-nih-grants.html
And so the psyop continues. There is no pandemic, no virus, no lab leak, no gain of fiction.
There is no COVID lab leak. That's a false narrative. Daszak is a red herring. Defunding him is a false solution. All performative. All meant to make you feel like things are changing for the better of that there will be justice. Take the bait and you lose.