A Freedom of Information Act request has produced a report more than 900 pages long detailing U.S. funding of research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the coordinated work that EcoHealth Alliance, the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases did with the Wuhan lab.
One of the NIH grants was for $666,422 to study the risk of bat coronaviruses. The grant’s plan, as written by the recipient, EcoHealth Alliance, outlines a plan to physically work in China on it. “This is a road map to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of COVID-19, told The Intercept.
“The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed,” The Intercept added.
All told, the documents show that EcoHealth Alliance received $3.1 million, of which the Wuhan Institute of Virology received $599,000 to “identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans.”
In other news MSN reported that a cable obtained by U.S. diplomat Rick Switzer and U.S. consul-general Jamie Fouss had obtained a cable stating that “NIH was a major funder, along with the National Science Foundation of China, of Sars research by the Wuhan Institute of Virology … In the last year, the institute has also hosted visits from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation and experts from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.”
SOURCES:
The Intercept September 6, 2021
MSN September 4, 2021
The Epoch Times September 7, 2021