June 9, 2021
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak â who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on research funded by Dr. Anthony Fauciâs National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease â appears to boast about the manipulation of âkillerâ SARS-like coronaviruses carried out by his âcolleagues in Chinaâ in a clip unearthed by The National Pulse.
Daszak made the admission at a 2016 forum discussing âemerging infectious diseases and the next pandemic,â which appears to be at odds with Fauciâs repeated denial of funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
While describing how his organization sequences deadly viruses, Daszak describes the process of âinsert[ing] spike proteinsâ into viruses to see if they can âbind to human cellsâ as being carried out by his âcolleagues in Chinaâ:
âThen when you get a sequence of a virus, and it looks like a relative of a known nasty pathogen, just like we did with SARS. We found other coronaviruses in bats, a whole host of them, some of them looked very similar to SARS. So we sequenced the spike protein: the protein that attaches to cells. Then we⊠Well I didnât do this work, but my colleagues in China did the work. You create pseudo particles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, see if they bind to human cells. At each step of this you move closer and closer to this virus could really become pathogenic in people.
âYou end up with a small number of viruses that really do look like killers,â he adds.
The comments follow growing evidence that Fauciâs NIAID has deep financial and personnel ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology â and that Daszakâs EcoHealth alliance was one of the primary proxies funneling the money to the Chinese Communist Party lab.
Over a dozen research papers carried out under a $3.7 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) grant list the Wuhan Labâs Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Director Shi Zhengli as a co-author alongside Daszak. Shi has included these Fauci-backed grants on her resume.
The Wuhan lab has also listed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of its âpartners,â secretly erasing the mention in March 2021.
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