The Coronavirus thread

Quote: terapined

??????
Ecohealth is mostly funded by the Pentagon
Its really weird how some conservatives want to pin the virus on one man.
Are other countries blaming the virus on Fauci? Of course not
Its absurd to blame one man for the virus yet some conservatives insist on it.

and again
"Likely" dont mean jack

Quote: kenarman

Facui's department is NAID. NAID is part of NIH. NIH was the funder of Ecohealth. You really should start doing your own research TP I am getting tired of doing it for you.

Quote:

Pentagon officials offered a qualified denial Tuesday when questioned on whether any of the nearly $40 million in defense money given to a non-government organization may have been used for research at the Chinese military-linked Wuhan Institute of Virology, a suspected potential origin point for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rys Williams, acting director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Brandi Vann, acting assistant defense secretary for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, told a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing that all the funds they reviewed from DTRA and other government sources did not go to the Chinese institute following reviews of grants to EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based NGO that worked closely with the WIV.

Quote: Kamala Harris in VP candidate debate on October 7,2020

Well, the American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country. And here are the facts. 210,000 dead people in our country in just the last several months. Over 7 million people who have contracted this disease. One in five businesses closed.

Quote: fleaswatter

Pentagon officials deny Wuhan Institute of Virology given defense funds


Hmmmmmm, that shoots down that bs posted earlier

Quote: fleaswatter

Pentagon officials deny Wuhan Institute of Virology given defense funds


Hmmmmmm, that shoots down that bs posted earlier

Quote: fleaswatter

Pentagon officials deny Wuhan Institute of Virology given defense funds


Hmmmmmm, that shoots down that bs posted earlier

Quote: kenarman

Quote: fleaswatter

Pentagon officials deny Wuhan Institute of Virology given defense funds


Hmmmmmm, that shoots down that bs posted earlier

“We have done a thorough look at all of our programmatic activities to ensure that at least the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s funding to this NGO was not provided, to the best of our knowledge, into the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Mr. Williams told the House panel that focuses on special operations."

"TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE" what a positive denial that is.

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An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses.

Experts say the NIH grant describes scientists conducting gain-of-function research, a risky area of study that, in this case, made SARS-like viruses even more contagious. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was temporarily suspended in 2014 due to widespread scientific concerns it risked leaking supercharged viruses into the human population.

Federal funding for gain-of-function research was resumed in late 2017 after the Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO) Framework was formed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The review board is tasked with critically evaluating whether grants that involve enhancing dangerous pathogens, such as coronaviruses, are worth the risks and that proper safeguards are in place.

But the NIH subagency that awarded the grant to the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance to study Chinese bat coronaviruses opted against forwarding it to the P3CO committee, an NIH spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation, meaning the research received federal funding without an independent review by the HHS board.

Ebright said the offices of the director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—the subagency that funded EcoHealth—and the NIH have “systematically thwarted–indeed systematically nullified–the HHS P3CO Framework by declining to flag and forward proposals for review.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci leads the NIAID and Dr. Francis S. Collins heads the NIH.