- The National Institutes of Health has “systematically thwarted” government oversight of dangerous pathogen research, Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard H. Ebright told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
- The P3CO Review Framework was created in 2017 after a three-year pause on government funding of research that intentionally makes pathogens more deadly or transmissible.
- An NIH grant that involved the modification of bat-based coronaviruses and the transfer of $600,000 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic bypassed P3CO review because the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, led by Anthony Fauci, didn’t flag the project for review.
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.
“This is a systemic problem,” Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard H. Ebright told the DCNF, referring to the loophole in the review framework.
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.
read more here: https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/04/nih-gain-of-function-anthony-fauci-review-board-wuhan-lab/
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"US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says"
Of course it wasn't, because the Grant was financed with taxpayer money, and that never needs scrutiny. JUST SPEND IT!
Ferret Faced Fauci Fraudulently Financed Findings.
F-F-F-F-F-F-OOL !
The program in Wuhan received a total of 3.7 million dollars to develop what can only be called a WEAPONIZED man-made variant of a naturally occurring virus... the purpose of such development can only be for the use on human populations as they certainly serve no other scientific need or useful research. Dr. Menggla of the Nazi era has noting on Fauci... it is time he is arrested, charged and tried for genocide...
My doc attended a conference where the host has found the trigger for CoVid. Haven't spoken to him yet, but the doc said the trigger is sugar, which makes sense, as the Chinese don"t eat much sugar and Americans eat it in everything. High Fructose corn syrup. I hope to find out more tomorrow.
An NIH grant to the Wuhan Lab; seems to me that should be against a government funded agency. This is not China and the NIH had no business participating in any way with the gain-of function research. All government money's should be removed from this agency immeidately. And both Fauci and Collins should be in jail for participating in such inhumane research.