Newly released FOIA documents show that Dr. Fauci’s NIH funded the Gain-of-Function research to make ‘Chimeric Coronaviruses’ in Wuhan Virology Lab
Daniel Levi
Posted On September 7, 2021
Over the past 18 months now, Dr. Anthony Fauci has vehemently denied his involvement in the funding of Gain-of-Function (GoF) research in Wuhan, China. Just two months ago, Dr. Fauci even screamed at a sitting U.S. Senator Rand Paul during a Senate hearing, calling him a liar for accusing him of funding so-called “Gain-of-Function” (GoF) research in Wuhan, China.
Now, thanks to newly released documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health (which were unredacted enough to toss Fauci under the bus), it turned out that NIH under Dr. Fauci leadership, funded EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit headed by Peter Daszak, was absolutely engaged in gain-of-function research to make chimeric SARS-based coronaviruses, which they confirmed could infect human cells. You can find the two separate documents here and here.
“The new FOIA materials confirm the grants supported the construction–in Wuhan–of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells,” Rutgers University Board of Governors Chemistry Professor Richard H. Ebright said.
“The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses–one not been previously disclosed publicly–was more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity, but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.”
While several pieces of evidence of the GoF research have been discussed in published studies, the newly released FOIA documents provide a key piece to the puzzle which sheds new light on what really happened.
According to The Intercept, Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know and the group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19, said: “This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic.”
Responding to new information from FOIA documents, Rutgers University Board of Governors Chemistry Professor Richard H. Ebright said:
“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.”
In a series of tweets, Professor Ebright said “The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses–one not been previously disclosed publicly–was more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.”
"NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of US-funded research on..coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing..work of..EcoHealth Alliance..at the Chinese lab.."https://t.co/n3OkFAq3kM
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021
The materials confirm the grants supported the construction–in Wuhan–of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells.
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) September 7, 2021
The findings from the newly released FOIA document clearly show that Dr. Fauci lied to Congress when he denied his involvement in the funding Gain-of-Function (GoF) research.
