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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
@R_H_Ebright
Sep 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
"Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/2…
"They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the [US] Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work."
"The bid was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, the US-based organisation, which has worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researching bat coronaviruses. Team members included..Shi Zhengli, the WIV researcher dubbed 'bat woman'"
"Darpa refused to fund the work, saying: 'It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk', and warned..the team had not properly considered..dangers of enhancing..virus (gain of function research) or releasing a vaccine by air."
"Viscount Ridley..called for..investigation..in..House of Lords..'For more than a year I tried..to ask questions of..Daszak with no response. Now it turns out he..authored this vital piece of information about..work in Wuhan but refused to share it with the world. I am furious.'"
"So should the world be."
* The proposal calls for aerosol delivery of recombinant SARSr CoV spike proteins in nanoparticles or in orthopoxviral vectors. Not aerosol delivery of SARSr CoVs.

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Apr 19
A striking aspect of the White House statement on the origin of COVID and its cover up is that it--correctly--assigns at least as much blame to US officials and US scientists as it assigns to China.

The White House statement--correctly--does not use the issue to bash China. Image
Each cited example of policy failure involves a US-government policy, and each cited example of misfeasance or malfeasance involves a current or former US-government official or a current or former US-government-funded scientist.
"NIH's procedures for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient, unreliable, and pose a serious threat to both public health and national security."
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Apr 18
"The Trump-appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia has sent multiple journal editors letters [accurately] asserting their publications are 'partisans in various scientific debates' and asking for responses to various questions."

science.org/content/articl…
"[N]ew NIH Director...Bhattacharya...has argued [accurately] that journals (including Science) were biased against certain viewpoints during the COVID-19 pandemic."
"The prosecutor’s letter makes reference to U.S. regulations, stating that journals have a 'position for which they are advocating either due to advertisement (postal code) or sponsorship (under relevant fraud regulations).'"
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Apr 8
"Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report…that the Biden administration concealed from the public."

freebeacon.com/biden-administ…
"The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab."
Ebright: "This new information strengthens U.S. and allied intelligence data indicating that COVID-19 was circulating in Wuhan in October-November 2019, U.S. and allied intelligence data indicating that researchers working with genetically enhanced SARS viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology contracted COVID-19 in October-November 2019, and phylogenomic data indicating that the virus that causes COVID-19 entered humans in July-November 2019."
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Mar 25
"[W]e identify 8 likely laboratory-acquired-infection SARS-CoV-2 infections from June 2020 to January 2021, sequenced at the University of North Carolina Hospital…[T]he LAIs have a high probability of being SARS-CoV-2 variants actively studied at...UNC"

zenodo.org/records/150805…
"[V]irologists’ position is that…creating synthetic pathogens…under appropriate Biological Safety Laboratory standards can be performed safely."

"However…laboratory-acquired infections (LAI)…occur, even under the highest BSL-3 and…BSL-4 standards."
See also:

propublica.org/article/near-m…
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Mar 21
The 2021 WHO mission to Wuhan did not visit the WIV campus with the ramshackle BSL-2 lab where Shi and Daszak constructed and characterized novel SARS and MERS viruses.

The WHO Mission visited only the WIV NBL campus, which is located 19 km away.
Daszak--who was on the 2021 WHO mission--misled the WHO mission by directing it to the WIV NBL campus instead of the WIV main campus, where Shi and he had constructed and characterized novel SARS and MERS viruses.
Other members of the 2021 WHO mission who knew they had been directed to the wrong location--like Marion Koopmans--played along with the fraud.
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 17
Five years ago today--a month after funding-agency heads Fauci, Collins, and Farrar commissioned scientists to write a paper falsely claiming lab origin of COVID is implausible--scientists Andersen, Rambaut Lipkin, Holmes, and Garry publish a fraudulent paper making this claim. Image
Private email and Slack communications of authors Andersen, Garry, Holmes, and Rambaut--made public through a Congressional inquiry--show these authors knew that the conclusions of their paper were unsound and invalid but chose, fraudulently, to proceed with publication.
In email and Slack communications, author Andersen wrote "the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario" on the day the first draft was started
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