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Wuhan Lab Eligible to Receive US Taxpayer Funding Through 2024, NIH Confirms

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The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is authorized to receive taxpayer funding for animal research until January 2024, the National Institute of Health told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The WIV is at the center of widespread speculation that COVID-19 could have entered the human population in China due to an accidental lab leak. Researchers at the lab were studying bat-based coronaviruses prior to the outbreak, a project partially backed by $600,000 in U.S. taxpayer funds routed to the lab through the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance.

The president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, was the sole U.S. member of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegation that investigated the origins of the pandemic on the ground in China in January and February. While the WHO delegation has yet to release a report on their findings, Daszak said the White House should blindly accept their conclusion that it’s highly unlikely the virus could have leaked from the WIV.

Daszak also said American intelligence, which indicates researchers at the WIV became infected with COVID-like symptoms before the first known cases in December 2019, shouldn’t be trusted.

EcoHealth Alliance’s work researching bat-based coronaviruses in China was funded by a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2014, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The grant was terminated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in April amid criticism over EcoHealth Alliance’s relationship with the WIV. The NIH said in a letter the nonprofit’s work in China did not align with “program goals and agency priorities.”

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Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province, China, on Feb. 3, 2021. (Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)

The NIH told EcoHealth Alliance in July it would restore the grant if it met certain conditions, one of which was to arrange for an independent team to investigate the WIV to determine if it had possession of the SARS-COV-2 virus prior to the first known cases in December 2019.

Daszak told NPR that the NIH’s conditions were “preposterous.”

“I’m not trained as a private detective,” Daszak said. “It’s not really my job to do that.”

However, the WIV still has an active Foreign Assurance on file with the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, which enables it to continue receiving taxpayer funds to engage in animal research, according to the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.

A NIH spokeswoman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the WIV’s Foreign Assurance was approved on Jan. 9, 2019, and is currently set to expire on Jan. 31, 2024.

The spokeswoman did not confirm whether the WIV is currently receiving direct or indirect taxpayer funding for research activities involving animals. EcoHealth Alliance’s last known subgrant to the WIV was in May 2019, according to USASpending.Gov.

EcoHealth Alliance received a new $7.5 million grant from the NIH to help establish a Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Daszak told NPR that the funds his organization received from the new grant will not be used for any research in China.

The president of the nonpartisan watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, Anthony Bellotti, told the DCNF that EcoHealth Alliance should be defunded entirely for funding “reckless gain-of-function animal experiments that may have led to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

“We’re urging Congress and the White House to defund EcoHealth now and secure independent investigations into whether their treacherous gain-of-function animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology led to the COVID outbreak.”

By Andrew Kerr

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Lee S McQuillen
Lee S McQuillen
3 years ago

China has more money than we do so they can fund their own stuff! And, they only have their elitist people that they care about anyway. I’m sick of us handing out our money to others outside our country when we have such need here. Typical liberal philosophy – bankrupt it’s citizens in order to control them and all the resources….

BAE
BAE
3 years ago

China kills our people. And we give them our hard earned money. You cannot make this up. Our politicians are useless.

Pete from St Pete
Pete from St Pete
3 years ago

Lenin was right. Leave us alone and the useful idiots will grease the way to our demise.

Ron Howard
Ron Howard
3 years ago

What can we do about it other than complain to Congress and Senate?

Danny Estridge
Danny Estridge
3 years ago

Great, our Our Country is giving money to our enemy. Classic US Government screw up AGAIN.

larry
larry
3 years ago

Make these articles sharable.

William Deroy
William Deroy
3 years ago

Why does the United States have to fund these foreign government researches anyway? Why can’t the United Stares do the research in America with American Infectious Disease doctor, experts and scientists ?

Stephen Lykins
Stephen Lykins
3 years ago

Seriously? Is this why China blames us for the damned pandemic?

Linlee
Linlee
3 years ago

This is outrageous! ???? After giving the world the covid virus they shouldn’t receive another dime from the USA! ???? Fauci needs to lose his job! ???? He doesn’t have the best interest of America in his deliberate handing out of our money to known terrorist! ???? Let him use his exorbitant salary! ???? Shame, shame, shame on these political hacks! ????

Barry Courtnay
Barry Courtnay
3 years ago

Not in a real good mood today. This administration will sell out America in a heartbeat. We are back in the Paris Accord agreement which will cost the U.S. millions of dollars. The administration is talking with Iran again about allowing them nuclear capabilities. W.H.O. has been lying to us and the world ever since the outbreak happened. I am sorry but we better learn how to speak Chinese. We need someone to stand up and stop this nonsense and stop this power grab fast. The sad thing is we had this person Donald John Trump, we allowed the Democrats to use the China FLU/ coronavirus to steal the election right away from us. We are like sheep when something scares us we go hide in a corner. This is all part of the NEW GREAT RESET. Say goodbye to the America we grow up in. Praying for better days.

Don S
Don S
3 years ago

Whatever became of investigations into Hunter? Don’t seem to hear much

Kelly Nosko
Kelly Nosko
3 years ago

These universities asked the CDC for viable samples. The cdc said we don’t have any.
They are now suing the CDC.

Kelly Nosko
Kelly Nosko
3 years ago

How come AMAC is not saying anything about the 7 Universities in California that tested 1500 samples of the virus and found only influenza A and B. NO EVIDENCE OF CORONA.
Of course resident joe will give money to China after all they gave him a boat load.

richard arveaux
richard arveaux
3 years ago

If it helps China in any way Ole Joe is all in. We have to get him where he belongs. In retirement forever. Then Impeach Toes Up Harris.

Notfooled
Notfooled
3 years ago

It was biowarfare, pure and simple.

Rickie Darrell Kennedy
Rickie Darrell Kennedy
3 years ago

. . . I don’t think that China has earned ANY respect from the United States and I definitely don’t want my taxpayer money to back anything they have to offer. I do however, believe the coronavirus was produced and released from the Wuhan Lab and that it was intentional. I also believe the second strand of the corona virus was also produced and released from the Wuhan Lab. Intentionally.
. . . To fund such dangerous lab research is against the will of the people of the USA and to back such research with tax payer’s money is not only against our will it should also be considered an act of war against America. Thus, making the people responsible for the funding, traitors against America. I also believe China’s release of the corona virus, an act of bio chemical warfare against the world and they must accept the responsibility for their actions.
. . . I also noticed they turned it loose on China’s own population and that their population recovered faster than other countries that were infected. Thus, I think they MAY have an antidote for the virus but are not willing to share it with the world.
. . . Conspiracy theory you think ? Maybe. But it’s worth checking out. Another thing worth checking out is; why Biden has such close ties with China and is still president of the United States while he is trying to bring communism to America? Last but not least; Why was the election rigged, we have the proof, more than enough evidence, and we still can’t get the evidence to court? Conclusion; the courts are also rigged. Joe Biden does not belong as our president until this evidence makes its way to and is dismissed by a Supreme Court that is constitutional and not paid for.

David P Nelson
David P Nelson
3 years ago

This is, yet, another reason why Conservative people need to STOP this Funding from happening. We need to attend to our own Backyard before we can assist others.

Robert H. Boyne II
Robert H. Boyne II
3 years ago

The Chinese government that is responsible for 100s of thousands in US deaths and still rising and allowed (if not unleashed) this plague on our country and the world is going to receive my tax dollars? I say that they should receive some things from one of our bio-chem labs.

Deborah
Deborah
3 years ago

We got to get Joe Biden out of office he is destroying this Country.

Pattie Miller
Pattie Miller
3 years ago

This is apprehensible. They should be paying us!

Nannie
Nannie
3 years ago

You can see obama’s hand in this.Evil man with evil intentions.

kathys
kathys
3 years ago

So disheartening to see American taxpayer money spent in this way. How can we afford this? This country is already trillions of dollars in debt. Hard pressed for me to believe that this form of biological warfare came from anywhere else other than the China lab!!!

David R
David R
3 years ago

If you want to know where, how, and who the virus came from, follow the money and it will come right back here to our country.

Lynn Thompson
Lynn Thompson
3 years ago

Makes my blood boil

par
par
3 years ago

Kidding me !!

Kenneth N.
Kenneth N.
3 years ago

We definitely have enemies within our gates who are either deranged or treasonous. We have watched our republic being poisoned by sedition and political correctness for decades while the bipartisan establishment continued to wallow in corruption and decay. The globalist establishment protects the two lap dog parties and the parties protect and nurture those who are loyal to the system. True American patriots are demeaned and damned by a “bought and paid for” media…….

aluminum head
aluminum head
3 years ago

Since Biden’s OCCUPATION ? Gas has gone up .40 a gallon all over. Wait till Christmas. It’ll be $5 – $6 a gallon and OAC will wish us a Merry Christmas. You watch and see.

aluminum head
aluminum head
3 years ago

After reading these mild mannered blogs, I will say it is a great time to see how much a house in rural Switzerland will cost. This place is so dead thanks to Dominion voting machines and ( I ) idiot independent voters. Did I mention the mail-in voting ? Our TRUE POTUS never had a chance.

aluminum head
aluminum head
3 years ago

As long as they experiment on Joe and the POS Hunter then that’s OK w/ me.

Robert Campbell
Robert Campbell
3 years ago

Oh just wonderful, we can fund the next pandemic too

Saunders
Saunders
3 years ago

Fauchi, Obama, Biden started all this by funding the wuhan lab during the obama admin.
If you trust any of these guys, you are an idiot.

RJ from Arizona
RJ from Arizona
3 years ago

Our government officials are brain dead. The end. This is a disgrace.

sick of the stupid
sick of the stupid
3 years ago

This is BS

Carol
Carol
3 years ago

No one is ever going to admit to leaking this virus from anywhere! Where ever this virus started, the folks involved have already covered their backsides! All the investigations are going to do is point fingers with nothing but blaming going on and a waste of hard earned tax payer dollars. If China wants to kill off half the population, they already know how and so do all the other rogue countries!

Barry
Barry
3 years ago

Not in a real good mood today. This administration will sell out America in a heartbeat. We are back in the Paris Accord agreement which will cost the U.S. millions of dollars. The administration is talking with Iran again about allowing them nuclear capabilities. W.H.O. has been lying to us and the world ever since the outbreak happened. I am sorry but we better learn how to speak Chinese. We need someone to stand up and stop this nonsense and stop this power grab fast. The sad thing is we had this person Donald John Trump, we allowed the Democrats to use the China FLU/ coronavirus to steal the election right away from us. We are like sheep when something scares us we go hide in a corner. This is all part of the NEW GREAT RESET. Say goodbye to the America we grow up in. Praying for better days.

J. Farley
J. Farley
3 years ago

We need to wave by to WUHAN, China and the WooHoo World Health Organization and do it with less than all the fingers on our hand. One will need to be enough !!!!!!!

Art A
Art A
3 years ago

NIH. FAUCI. FAUCI. FAUCI. YOU GET IT YET??????

Roger Haines
Roger Haines
3 years ago

Why can’t that research be done in America and keep the dollars here?

Sharon Harrigan
Sharon Harrigan
3 years ago

I have purposes to NEVER buy anything made in China. I believe those who do are not being faithful to America. Stop buying their products, please.

Rick
Rick
3 years ago

What next, Chinese language courses at U.S. taxpayer expense?

Chuck
Chuck
3 years ago

Amazing how the Chinese virus is conveniently morphed into an “accidental leak” when Senator Cotton intimated it was a bio weapon a year ago.

Dwight Lebsack
Dwight Lebsack
3 years ago

It seems that the Obiden admin is rallying around the white flag instead of the American flag.

Cris
Cris
3 years ago

The U.S. government accuses China of the mass internment of up to 2 million members of mostly Muslim ethnic minority groups and now rewards China with taxpayer money. Unbelievable

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
3 years ago

NO, they created the virus , we dont want more, have enough with damn virus mutations & we help China plan more plagues. NO, end funding

Charlotte A Mahin
Charlotte A Mahin
3 years ago

Forgot to mention that I believe our Communist Democrats in DC actually had a heavy hand in initiating Covid-19 to help them along with the China Regime to take over the world. Didn’t want to believe this at first but since they have now been in power for two months, I think is a 99% possibility.

JJS
JJS
3 years ago

Can somebody tell us what we can do to stop this funding?

Charlotte A Mahin
Charlotte A Mahin
3 years ago

Heartbreaking and evil are the words that come to mind when I see how the Communist Democrats in DC are hell-bent on destroying our country, Their and alas, many in DC are taking money from the Chinese Communists in order to line their own pockets. These disgusting people first steal the election and before we can even catch our breath, they have begun to destroy all that we had before they began their quest. The lying hateful words from their collective mouths are beyond horrible. We need strong Conservatives in DC (there are still some left) who will stand up to these monsters. And now we don’t even have our biggest patriot and truth-teller, Rush Limbaugh to assist in our fight to remain free.

Steven King
Steven King
3 years ago

How wunnerful it is that we give them funding so that they can produce the next bio agent they want to try on the world.

Mandy
Mandy
3 years ago

Do we really need further proof that Communism through the leadership of the DNC has infiltrated the US government and they now are working very hard to take us down. Think about the big money laundered to the Biden’s from Communist China. Not to mention the corrupt Clintons and Obama leadership and their Communist background.

Communists in action is what Antifa and the other Dem protesters are. Kamela has Communism in her background. Removing our historical statues is part of the Communist plan of removing a country’s history.

The leadership of the Democrat Party is Communist—Nancy Pelosi’s mentor was Vivian Halinan whose far left lawyer husband defended communists and hosted parties for the CPUSA. America better wake up you’re under assault from within by people who are funded by foreign sources.

I refer to it as the Communist DNC as most of the leadership are Communists. I don’t say this lightly. Why I believe this is can be found in the book “You Can Still Trust the Communists (to be Communists).pdf The book can be found for free online by searching the title. The first 20 pages or so are slow reading but after that, I couldn’t put the book down. An update hard copy version of this book by David Noebel can be found online This book reminded me about Bill Clinton’s desire to visit Russia and Russia allowed him in.

This book states the USSR only allowed those to visit that they believed they could use and then
remember, they gave permission for Bill Clinton to visit when he was a Rhodes scholar.
Bernie Sanders was able to visit. People should ask, why were these two men were so infatuated with Russia.

Obama also has Communism in his upbringing. Remember Obama and Michelle hung Mao Christmas ornaments on the White House tree and no one made a big deal out it.

Open borders policy is part of it also as the US wouldn’t know how many schools, hospitals etc we would need for the country and the open borders crowd would rebuild as the desired totalitarian country they want, it would create chaos, bring down The Covid-19 pandemic should put the Democrats open borders policy to rest forever. We need borders and we need them secured. But now the borders are open again and Biden is not even testing these folks which make me believe the Covid virus was …..what? A hoax?

These Dems are working to destroy our country by creating chaos (Antifa) as well as attempting to remove history (statues, renaming schools as Feinstein did by even taking her own name off of one) & they have already taken over education. The outline for what is happening now is in the book I noted above. My grandparents fled Communism a hundred years ago and now it is here. After the US is taken over, there is no where else to do.

Doug Rauscher
Doug Rauscher
3 years ago

We funded the outbreak and will continue to keep funding until 2024. You have to be kidding. What’s wrong with our government? We should have cancelled that funding long ago. We are stupid.

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