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    Exclamation NIH Contradicts Fauci, Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab

    NIH Contradicts Fauci, Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-at-wuhan-lab/

    KRISTINA WONG 20 Oct 2021

    Molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright on Wednesday posted a letter from the National Institute of Health (NIH) showing that an NIH grant did fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, contrary to what Dr. Anthony Fauci had testified to the Senate.

    Fauci testified to Senators at a hearing in May that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

    However, the NIH’s October 20 letter to House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) showed that the NIH grant, which was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance and then sub-awarded to the Wuhan lab, funded a research project during 2018 and 2019 that tested “if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”

    The letter added: “In this limited experiment, laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV1 bat coronavirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat coronavirus.”

    According to the Department of Health and Human Services, “gain-of-function” research is research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease.

    Ebright tweeted that in the letter, the NIH “corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan.”



    https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/stat...t-wuhan-lab%2F

    Furthermore, Ebright noted that the NIH’s letter appeared to show that EcoHealth Alliance violated the Terms and Conditions of the NIH grant.

    The NIH said “out of an abundance of caution and as an additional layer of oversight, language was included in the terms and conditions of the grant award to EcoHealth that outlined criteria for a secondary review, such as a requirement that the grantee report immediately a one log increase in growth.”

    It continued:

    These measures would prompt a secondary review to determine whether the research aims should be re-evaluated or new biosafety measures should be enacted.

    EcoHealth failed to report this finding right away, as was required by the terms of the grant.

    The letter pointed out that the coronaviruses studied under the grant were unlikely to have become SARS-CoV-2, now commonly referred to as the “coronavirus” or “COVID-19.”

    Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), whose questioning had led to Fauci’s denial that NIH was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in May, tweeted: “‘I told you so’ doesn’t even begin to cover it here.”



    https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/...t-wuhan-lab%2F

    Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who was mocked for suggesting the coronavirus might have escaped from the Wuhan lab, also weighed in on NIH’s letter, tweeting, “Fauci knew. He should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
    Last edited by Anti Federalist; 10-21-2021 at 04:16 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    The letter pointed out that the coronaviruses studied under the grant were unlikely to have become SARS-CoV-2, now commonly referred to as the “coronavirus” or “COVID-19.”
    This is what they're hanging their hat on... "oh, well it was gain of function, but not on SARS-CoV-2! We didn't fund those vials - if they even existed. If they had 20 vials in the rack, we only funded the ones that DIDN'T cause Covid."

    "Never mind that we funded the equipment, the lab, the technology, and the scientists... It wasn't our fault."
    "And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat

    "It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire

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    And yet this still won't result in Fauci getting fired.
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

    Calvin Coolidge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    And yet this still won't result in Fauci getting fired.
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