Man, where was this news like four years ago? Oh yeah, that's right, it was flagged on every major platform and not allowed to see the light of day.
Finally, in 2024, we get the truth:
Yes, EcoHealth Alliance has had their federal funds, government-wide, suspended by the HHS for their willful violation of the terms of a multimillion-dollar National Institute of Health grant.
We first reported about EcoHealth's partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the National Institutes of Health funding it received from the U.S. government (AKA your tax dollars) to work on bat coronaviruses way back in September 2021. This forced the NIH to admit the following month that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied in front of Congress when being grilled by Sen. Rand Paul.
In October 2022, we then reported that the government was STILL funding EcoHealth and its leader, Peter Daszak. Not only that, but the research was for BAT CORONAVIRUSES.
The media displayed him as a poor soul who tried to warn us what was coming back in 2020:
As with most scientists trying to play God, the thing they designed to prevent a catastrophe actually caused the catastrophe they were trying to prevent. Only about 5,000 different sci-fi books could have warned them!
Fortunately, after 4 long years - 4 very long years - we finally have some consequences for the people at the center of the Covid pandemic, even if it seems like the smallest slap on the wrist possible.
The Department of Health and Human Services implemented an immediate, government-wide suspension on all funds allocated to EcoHealth Alliance - a firm that used taxpayer funds to conduct gain of function research at the Wuhan lab before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
HHS made the decision, citing evidence included in the House COVID Select Subcommittee's staff-level report on the nonprofit …
The House COVID subcommittee, reacting Wednesday, said those are ‘not the actions of an organization or an individual that should continue to receive taxpayer funds.'
From the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chair Brad Wenstrup:
This is to provide notification that, on behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I have suspended and proposed for debarment EcoHealth Alliance, Ine. (EHA) from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.
Only two weeks after the Select Subcommittee released an extensive report detailing EcoHealth's wrongdoing and recommending the formal debarment of EcoHealth and its president, HHS has begun efforts to cut off all U.S. funding to this corrupt organization. EcoHealth facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight, willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant, and apparently made false statements to the NIH. These actions are wholly abhorrent, indefensible, and must be addressed with swift action. EcoHealth's immediate funding suspension and future debarment is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide.
Okay, Rep. Brad Wenstrup of Ohio!
Okay!
EcoHealth was not authorized to perform gain-of-function research, yet the report shows that they did just that.
The Year 5 Report describes an experiment in which the WIV infected transgenic mice with four different coronaviruses, three of which were chimera or recombinant viruses with different spike proteins. The WIV then measured the pathogenicity of the novel laboratory created viruses as compared to the control, which was a full-length backbone of WIV1. The pathogenicity of the three chimeras was then compared to that of WIV1.
In the experiment, the survival rate of mice infected with WIV1 was 71.4 percent while the survival rate of the mice infected with one of the chimeric viruses (WIV1-SHC014) was just 25 percent. Therefore, the laboratory generated chimera was more pathogenic than the control virus and the mice infected with that chimera became sicker.
In the October 20, 2021 letter to Mr. Comer, Dr. Tabak described this experiment and its result as 'unexpected.' Regardless of whether the results were expected or not, it appears this experiment would constitute gain-of-function research.
Crazy that this was Twitter conspiracy theory talk just four years ago, and now we're seeing, once again, that the conspiracy theorists were right.
EcoHealth also seems to be hiding the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab notebooks.
Seems fishy ...
A little more on how EcoHealth spent the millions it received in your tax dollars:
That money - at least $600,000 - was redirected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and went toward research to assess the transmission of bat coronaviruses to humans. The research included conducting RNA extractions and DNA sequencing on bat samples as well as biological experiments on pathogen spillover from bats to humans.
EcoHealth Alliance also received more than $200,000 that was redirected to Wuhan University and went toward disease surveillance research activities, including collection of biological samples from people in China with high levels of exposure to bats for Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct further screening.
Cheers to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic for getting EcoHealth's funding suspended.
Without them, EcoHealth could be out there using taxpayer money to create the next pandemic. Not to mention, people would still believe that Covid-19 developed naturally from an armadillo creature at the Wuhan wet market.
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