The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

Re:The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19... by WillPostForFood on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:04AM (#27391348)

EcoHealth secured a NIAID grant of roughly $3.7 million, which it allocated in part to various entities engaged in collecting bat samples, building models, and performing gain-of-function experiments to see which animal viruses were able to jump to humans.

It was a $3.7million dollar grant to EcoHealth Alliance, which I wouldn't doubt he was involved with. $600,000 was sent from EcoHealth to Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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Re:The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19... by harryf on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:16AM (#27391680)

...except Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth, took it upon himself to thank Fauci for pushing the "natural causes" narrative - https://foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-world/new-emails-reveal...

More explanation of that here... https://youtu.be/jMr-fGmRGco?t=246

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Re:The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19... by Fomite on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:27AM (#27391727)

That's not all that big of a grant. It's roughly twice the standard NIH R01. I can't imagine the head of NIAID being directly involved in that.

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