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| − | During Daszak's presentation, given with an accompanying slideshow, he states his coronavirus work in China was carried out with “funding” from Fauci's NIAID along with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program: “Working with the USAID EPT PREDICT Program and funding through NIAID to work on coronaviruses in China, we were able to test out this idea of predicting what the next emerging diseases might be. So we’ve all heard of SARS. We know that SARS is carried by civets. Well, actually, the host of SARS-like viruses, the viruses that the [[SARS-CoVid-1|SARS]] coronavirus emerged from are bats....We worked in China to go out and do surveillance in other bat species and say how many other SARS-like viruses are there. Is there something even close to SARS? And sure enough, there was." | + | During Daszak's presentation, given with an accompanying slideshow, he states his coronavirus work in China was carried out with “funding” from Fauci's NIAID along with the [[United States Agency for International Development]] (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) program: “Working with the [[USAID]] EPT PREDICT Program and funding through NIAID to work on coronaviruses in China, we were able to test out this idea of predicting what the next emerging diseases might be. So we’ve all heard of SARS. We know that SARS is carried by civets. Well, actually, the host of SARS-like viruses, the viruses that the [[SARS-CoVid-1|SARS]] coronavirus emerged from are bats....We worked in China to go out and do surveillance in other bat species and say how many other SARS-like viruses are there. Is there something even close to SARS? And sure enough, there was." |
| | “Even the international grants, the bulk of those funds go through U.S. organizations like ours before we send any abroad,” Daszak answers in response to a question about federal funding posed by Cornell Medicine's Oliver Fein, who asserts “the worst virus that we presently have is the [[Trump administration]].” | | “Even the international grants, the bulk of those funds go through U.S. organizations like ours before we send any abroad,” Daszak answers in response to a question about federal funding posed by Cornell Medicine's Oliver Fein, who asserts “the worst virus that we presently have is the [[Trump administration]].” |