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Revision as of 11:03, February 18, 2022
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====Wuhan Institiute of Virology====
====Wuhan Institiute of Virology====
In a 2012 scientific paper, [[Anthony Fauci]] argued that the alleged benefits resulting from [[gain of function]] research outweighed the risks.<ref>https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1398286881306128402</ref> On October 17, 2014 the [[Obama administration]] announced a moratorium on gain-of-function research.<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/17/doing-diligence-assess-risks-and-benefits-life-sciences-gain-function-research</ref> The moratorium was lifted by the Obama [[White House]] in January 2017, eleven days before President Trump was sworn into office. From 2014 to 2019, $826,277 was given to the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]] for bat coronavirus research by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which was headed by Fauci.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-hhs-niaid-wuhan-june-2021-00692-pgs-74-75/</ref>
On January 9, 2017, eleven days before Obama left office, the Obama White House lifted a ban on funding gain-of-function research and weaponization of the bat [[coronavirus]] to make it transmissible to humans at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2017/01/09/recommended-policy-guidance-potential-pandemic-pathogen-care-and-oversight</ref><ref>https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/p3co-finalguidancestatement.pdf</ref> Two days later Fauci made a presentation at Georgetown University stating that there is “no doubt” Donald J. Trump will be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak during his presidency.<ref>https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170111/fauci-no-doubt-trump-will-face-surprise-infectious-disease-outbreak</ref><ref>https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=285342982614327</ref> Biden chief of staff [[Ron Klain]] was also in attendance and said, "It’s hard to think of a more important time to show a willingness to speak out in the public health community and the global health community than it is right now on the eve of Donald Trump becoming our next president. The risks have never been higher, and the question of his perspective on these issues has never been more dubious than it is with Donald Trump.” In December 2017 Fauci awarded the grant specifically to the Wuhan lab.<ref>https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research</ref> Nine months later [[Lisa Monaco]] announced, ''The Next Pandemic Will Be Arriving Shortly''.<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/28/the-next-pandemic-will-be-arriving-shortly-global-health-infectious-avian-flu-ebola-zoonotic-diseases-trump/</ref>
The evidence came out that Fauci had funded [[gain-of-function]] research on coronavirus at the [[WIV|Wuhan lab]], which was also done illegally via the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance<ref>https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/</ref> due to Obama having banned such research in the United States, which made him directly responsible for the [[coronavirus]] outbreak<ref>https://nationalfile.com/watch-rand-paul-confronts-fauci-for-funding-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/</ref> In addition, leaked audio around 2017 had him telling President Trump with certainty that he'll be facing a pandemic.<ref>https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170111/fauci-no-doubt-trump-will-face-surprise-infectious-disease-outbreak</ref>
Dr. Roger Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at [[Rutgers University]] and biosafety expert, contested Fauci’s testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. 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.”<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/biosafety-expert-explains-why-fauci-140753796.html Biosafety Expert Explains Why Fauci’s NIH ‘Gain-of-Function’ Testimony Was ‘Demonstrably False’, Yahoo News</ref> 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.
Ebright said, "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 [[pathogen]]s 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.
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