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Timeline of COVID-19 Outbreak (view source)
Revision as of 08:24, July 23, 2021
, 08:24, July 23, 2021→February 2021
*Mid February - High-level Chinese Defection Rumored.<ref>https://archive.is/JsDBE#selection-127.0-127.36</ref>
*Mid February - High-level Chinese Defection Rumored.<ref>https://archive.is/JsDBE#selection-127.0-127.36</ref>
:*State Security Vice Minister [[Dong Jingwei]] would be highest-level defector in the history of the People's Republic.
:*State Security Vice Minister [[Dong Jingwei]] would be highest-level defector in the history of the People's Republic.
===May 2021===
*'''13 May.''' Biosafety Expert Explains Why Fauci’s NIH ‘Gain-of-Function’ Testimony Was ‘Demonstrably False’.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/biosafety-expert-explains-why-fauci-140753796.html</ref>
:*Dr. Roger Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and biosafety expert, is contesting NIH director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.
:*Fauci’s claim that “the NIH [National Institutes of Health] has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV]” is “demonstrably false.”
:*the research can be classified as gain-of-function under a number of different definitions, including those found in two pieces of Department of Health and Human Services guidance on the subject.
:*the work being conducted at the WIV, using NIH funds originally granted to Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, “epitomizes” gain-of-function research under the definition HHS provided in its guidance, and is the exact kind of research that led the Obama administration to conclude that gain-of-function was too dangerous to continue domestically.
:*‘The Wuhan lab used NIH funding to construct novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and laboratory animals...This is high-risk research that creates new potential pandemic pathogens (i.e., potential pandemic pathogens that exist only in a lab, not in nature). This research matches — indeed epitomizes — the definition of ‘gain of function research of concern’ for which federal funding was ‘paused’ in 2014-2017.”
:*“Chimeric” coronaviruses refers to those that have been altered and enhanced by man, in this case in such a way as to make them more transmissible and dangerous to humans.
:*The paper drafted by WIV scientists [''Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus]], Zheng-Li Shi and others, November 30, 2017]. clearly states that the underlying research was funded by, among other entities, the National Institutes of Health. The NIH’s own database of grantees lists this research and confirms that over $660,000 was spent supporting it.
===June 2021===
===June 2021===