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“At a minimum, everyone associated with the DEFUSE proposal should be permanently debarred from receiving future federal funding,” Rutgers University biosafety advocate says after Senator Paul’s latest revelations.
More than a dozen federal agencies asked to fund the creation of a “novel chimeric SARS-CoV spike protein” with a highly infectious furin cleavage site, two years before COVID-19 emerged, seem likely to follow the “I don’t recall” playbook of the federal government’s record-setting pensioner under congressional scrutiny.
The onetime lab-leak “conspiracy” has come full circle with the revelation that 15 federal agencies, from the National Institutes of Health to three Cabinet-level departments and multiple components, could have warned the public as early as 2018 of the research planned by China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, its nonprofit conduit for federal funding.
The Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), part of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases led by Anthony Fauci for four decades, was even listed as a “partner” for the WIV project known as DEFUSE, for which EcoHealth President Peter Daszak sought funding at an interagency pitch day for the Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats program.
That’s all according to the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, who asked the 15 agency heads in separate letters Tuesday for more information by April 23 on their “knowledge and involvement” with DEFUSE and PREEMPT.
Paul identified other listed partners including the University of North Carolina Baric Lab run by Ralph Baric, who collaborated directly with WIV. Baric said he discussed “the outbreak and chimeras” with Fauci in February 2020, according to a former colleague recounting a conversation with Baric.
Another is the Columbia University Lipkin Lab run by Ian Lipkin, who originally told Fauci there was a “nightmare of circumstantial evidence” tying WIV to SARS-CoV-2. Lipkin then coauthored the Proximal Origin paper dismissing lab-leak, which Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins covertly shaped.
full story at https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/conspiracy-theory-cover-agencies-hid-2018-pitch-fund-chimeric
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