#THREAD: 1/ The #Pentagon gave $39 MILLION to Dr. Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance - the charity that funded coronavirus research at #China's Wuhan lab accused of being the source of the outbreak, federal data reveals.
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Long Special Report👍
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2/ The majority of the DoD funding came from the DTRA, a military branch with a mission to 'counter & deter weapons of mass destruction & improvised threat networks.'
Federal grant data shows that the charity has received more than $123 million from the government in total.
Federal grant data shows that the charity has received more than $123 million from the government in total.
3/ The news comes as the charity's chief, British-born scientist Dr. Peter Daszak, was exposed in an alleged conflict of interest and back-room campaign to discredit lab leak theories.
4/ The charity, EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), has come under intense scrutiny after it emerged that it had been using federal grants to fund research into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
5/ The U.S. nonprofit, set up to research new diseases, has also partly funded deeply controversial 'gain of function' experiments, where dangerous viruses are made more infectious to study their effect on human cells.
6/ In February 2020 Daszak persuaded over 2 dozen scientists to sign off on a letter he wrote to The Lancet journal, that was seen as so influential that it cowed most experts into refusing to consider that the virus could have been man-made & leaked from the Wuhan institute.
7/ The joint letter, published in the journal on February last year, praised the Chinese 'who continue to save lives & protect global health during the Covid outbreak & we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories saying that Covid-19 doesn't have a natural origin.'
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