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| Wuhan lab to keep getting US taxpayer dollars... |
| 2021-02-19 |
| [AM Greatness] The Wuhan Institute of Virology, the controversial laboratory in China that many have pointed to as the origin of the Chinese coronavirus, has been authorized to receive American taxpayer funding for the next three years, according to the Daily Caller. A spokesperson for the National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed this to the Caller, and said that the funding for which the lab is eligible would be focused on "animal research" through at least January of 2024. The lab had previously received $600,000 in taxpayer funding between 2014 and 2019, with the funds being funneled to the lab by the shady nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance. That funding went directly to the lab’s efforts to test coronavirus cases in bats just before the global outbreak. EcoHealth’s broader efforts to study bat-based coronavirus strains in China received $3.7 million in grant funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2014. The president of EcoHealth, Peter Daszak, is a member of the World Health Organization delegation that was tasked with investigating the origins of the Chinese coronavirus, and is the only American to serve on the delegation. He has been critical of the suggestion that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, and has refused additional investigative efforts into the origins of the virus. The NIH terminated EcoHealth’s grant in April, and then offered in July to restore the grant if the NIH was permitted to conduct its own investigation. Daszak called the proposal "preposterous," adding "I’m not trained as a private detective. It’s not really my job to do that." Despite the global controversy over its conduct, the Wuhan lab still shows an active Foreign Assurance status on file with the NIH’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, through which it is permitted to continue its research on animals with taxpayer funding. Related: Wuhan Institute of Virology: 2021-02-02 Chinese military was testing Covid vaccine in December 2019 Wuhan Institute of Virology: 2021-01-31 New Study By Dr. Steven Quay Concludes that SARS-CoV-2 Came from a Laboratory Wuhan Institute of Virology: 2021-01-30 Bill Maher Pushes Steve Bannon Wuhan Lab COVID Conspiracy Related: EcoHealth Alliance: 2020-05-28 NIH Director: Can't Rule Out COVID-19 'Isolated And Studied' In Wuhan Lab EcoHealth Alliance: 2020-05-02 Congressman Probes into Pentagon ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction' Grant to Firm that Sent Taxpayer Dollars to Wuhan Lab EcoHealth Alliance: 2020-04-27 Rudy Giuliani Slammed Dr. Fauci Over His Agency's $3.7 Million Grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #5 /\ I was hoping for some growth elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-19 17:52 |
| #4 ^^^^wake me up for the pandemic that causes us to regrow our Prehensile Tail, that would be so cool. |
| Posted by: George Spawn of the French2527 2021-02-19 17:42 |
| #3 Currently working on the next pandemic. And the one after that. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2021-02-19 17:23 |
| #2 What do you mean 'we,' paleface? |
| Posted by: Xi-Den and Ho-Tep 2021-02-19 12:01 |
| #1 We're conducting biological warfare against ourselves. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-02-19 11:56 |