Origin of Covid — Following the Clues Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? Nicholas Wade May 2

Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
Nicholas Wade
May 2

Comparing the Rival Scenarios of SARS2 Origin
1. The place of origin.
2. Natural history and evolution
3. The furin cleavage site.
4. A Question of Codons

Where We Are So Far
1. Chinese virologists
2. Chinese authorities
3. The worldwide community of virologists
4. The US Role in Funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology

From June 2014 to May 2019 Dr. Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance had a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to do gain-of-function research with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Understanding the Riskof Bat Coronavirus Emergence

Project Number1R01AI110964-01
Contact PI/Project LeaderDASZAK, PETER
Awardee Organization ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.

The moratorium specifically barred funding any gain-of-function research that increased the pathogenicity of the flu, MERS or SARS viruses. But then a footnote on p.2 of the moratorium document states that “An exception from the research pause may be obtained if the head of the USG funding agency determines that the research is urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security.” 

“Unfortunately, the NIAID Director and the NIH Director exploited this loophole to issue exemptions to projects subject to the Pause –preposterously asserting the exempted research was ‘urgently necessary to protect public health or national security’ — thereby nullifying the Pause,” Dr. Richard Ebright said in an interview with Independent Science News.

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