‘Bombshell’ NIH Letter On Bat Coronavirus Research Reveals Fauci’s Big Lie, Professor Says
OCT 24, 2021 COVID19
A leading critic of the National Institutes of Health contends the federal agency “put at risk” U.S. public health and national security by funding a bat coronavirus research project by EcoHealth Alliance.
Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Washington Examiner a new letter in which the NIH conceded the group run by Peter Daszak violated its rules when conducting bat coronavirus research is a “bombshell” admission because it “corrects the untruthful assertions” by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and his boss NIH Director Francis Collins, both of whom claim NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.
Ebright’s assertions are challenged by NIH, which continues to back the contentions made by Collins, who is retiring from his role, and Fauci on the politically charged issue that digs to root of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lawrence Tabak, NIH principal deputy director, said in the Wednesday letter that EcoHealth provided a five-year progress report on bat coronavirus research conducted under an NIH grant, and that “in this limited experiment, laboratory mice infected with the SHC014 WIV1 bat coronavirus became sicker than those infected with the WIV1 bat coronavirus.”
“As sometimes occurs in science, this was an unexpected result of the research, as opposed to something that the researchers set out to do,” the agency said, adding: “EcoHealth failed to report this finding right away, as was required by the terms of the grant.”
With critics, including Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, contending the letter confirms the Wuhan lab collaborator had indeed been conducting gain-of-function research, Ebright said, “NIH’s acknowledgment of the facts is new, but the facts themselves are not.” He insisted NIH had been “informed about the gain-of-function research in Wuhan in 2018 and again in 2020.”
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