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So why did USA fund coronavirus gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab, via Anthony Fauci / NiH / Peter Daszak / EcoHealth Alliance?

shlomo wrote:

Funding surveillance of naturally occurring bat coronaviruses

Surveillance?

NiH already admitted that the research had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice.

This was not simply "surveillance".

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NIH says grantee failed to report experiment in Wuhan that created a bat virus that made mice sicker

EcoHealth Alliance violated terms of grant, according to letter to House Republicans

21 Oct 2021

An ongoing controversy over what constitutes virology research that is too dangerous to conduct—and whether the U.S government funded studies in China that violated a policy barring funding for such risky research—has taken a new turn. While denying once again it had helped create the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed in a letter sent yesterday to Republicans in Congress that experiments it funded through a U.S.-based nonprofit in 2018 and 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice.

https://www.science.org/content/article … ice-sicker

shlomo wrote:

My AI just bitchslapped you again

That 2021 NIH letter is a smoking gun for EcoHealth breaking grant terms and failing to report a 1-log growth jump in humanized mice. But in terms of COVID's origin, the chimeric backbone used in that specific study was WIV1—a virus genetically incapable of evolving into SARS-CoV-2. Valid critique of NIH oversight, but bad evidence for a lab origin.

Your AI is retarded.

I never claimed that Covid-19 came from a lab.

I simply asked "why did USA fund coronavirus gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab, via Anthony Fauci / NiH / Peter Daszak / EcoHealth Alliance?"

It's funny that your jew bot immediately tried to attack claims that Covid-19 came from a lab, WHEN I NEVER MADE THAT CLAIM.

Phillip_McCavity wrote:

Its in the US national interest to find out about emerging threats to human health all over the world.

So, research is funded.

You're leaving out the fact that EcoHealth Alliance violated terms of their grant, used taxpayer cash to fund gain-of-function coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab, and hid evidence of their activities.

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EcoHealth Alliance faces criminal DOJ probe after funding risky Wuhan lab research with taxpayer cash, House report finds

29 July 2026

The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the pandemic-era activities of the EcoHealth Alliance, following new congressional findings that the organisation used taxpayer cash to fund gain-of-function research at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

A comprehensive report from the House Select Subcommittee details how the nonprofit group allegedly violated federal grant terms before facing suspension from all government funding, according to the subcommittee's findings.

Lawmakers claim EcoHealth President Dr Peter Daszak attempted to obstruct the federal inquiry by altering documents, instructing staff to reduce the pace of evidence production, and providing false statements to Congress regarding the organisation's collaborative work overseas.

The US Department of Health and Human Services initiated official debarment proceedings against the group. Authorities suspended financial support after evidence emerged that the organisation had violated the terms of its National Institutes of Health grant, the report states.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-justice-de … es-1811384

Devil's advocate here, but considering the rate of covid19 spread, which seemed accelerated, how did ebola not also spread the same way?

Gain of function testing, near wet markets, in case of 'issues'.

After the wet market was closed, samples showed the animals in the wet market were infected with two
different strains of SARS-CoV2, both of which crossed to humans.

Further testing showed that after the virus jumped into humans, it went through selection to stabilize it,
which is consistent with the virus in the animal having the capacity to infect humans.

So the most probable is that a market wild animal vendor transported infected animals to the market. They first infected
other nearby animals, and then one or two people in late November. The first few people probably didn't show symptoms, and
then a small reservoir around the market took hold. In early Dec, the virus found the first humans that were vulnerable to
the sickness, and by then is was too late.