NIH says grantee failed to report experiment in Wuhan that created a bat virus that made mice sicker

[tulipsandroses]

The do nothing GQP is demanding that Fauci be fired

An ongoing controversy over what constitutes virology research that is too dangerous to conduct—and whether the U.S government funded studies in China that violated a policy barring funding for such risky research—has taken a new turn. While denying once again it had helped create the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed in a letter sent yesterday to Republicans in Congress that experiments it funded through a U.S.-based nonprofit in 2018 and 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice.

NIH says the organization holding the parent grant, the EcoHealth Alliance, failed to immediately report this result to the agency, as required. A newly released progress report on that grant also shows that EcoHealth and WIV conducted experiments changing the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which is raising additional questions.

NIH noted in its letter that when the agency reviewed the original EcoHealth grant proposal, it determined the proposed experiments—designed to determine whether certain bat coronaviruses might infect humans—did not meet its definition of so-called gain-of-function (GOF) experiments that can make pathogens more dangerous to humans.

The letter is giving fuel to critics of NIH who say agency leaders have not been upfront with Congress
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-failed-report-experiment-wuhan-created-bat-virus-made-mice-sicker

[PSPS]

1. Aw Jeez...

[Celerity]

2. You do realise that Science is one of the top peer-reviewed academic journals in the world, and

is published by the world's largest scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science?

[womanofthehills]

3. Might be why Francis Collins quit so suddenly

[tulipsandroses]

5. I was thinking the same thing

Sigh, It makes Rand Paul look like he was right when he questioned Fauci. NIH is saying Fauci did not lie. But you are not going to convince GQP or conspiracy theorists otherwise.


The NIH based these disclosures on a research progress report that EcoHealth Alliance sent to the agency in August, roughly two years after it was supposed to. An NIH spokesperson told Vanity Fair that Dr. Fauci was “entirely truthful in his statements to Congress,” and that he did not have the progress report that detailed the controversial research at the time he testified in July. But EcoHealth Alliance appeared to contradict that claim, and said in a statement: “These data were reported as soon as we were made aware,
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan/amp

[Sympthsical]

4. Keep in mind the guy behind EcoHealth was the one manipulating the media

Peter Daszak was the one gathering up signatures early on in the pandemic to make sure people were told 100% it was a random natural event, and that any questions to the contrary were conspiracy and should be suppressed and banned by the media.

I'm sorry, but something was up in all of this.

Heads in the sand because of political objectives is not science.

Questions need asking here. People deserve answers.

[Raine]

6. Totally agree, so many people dead and lives destroyed we need to find out how and why

to keep this from happening again and again.

[WHITT]

7. When Will They Stop Beating That Dead Horse

There's ZERO evidence the virus began in China, let alone in Wuhan.

There's absolutely ZERO evidence the virus was created, escaped, removed, or stolen from any Chinese lab.

There is EVIDENCE that an earlier variant of the virus existed in Europe well before it existed in China.

It was documented that the specific DNA-identified strain that infected New York was from Europe.