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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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Jun 18
NIH Notice, June 18, 2025:

"Effective immediately, NIH will [t]erminate funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern" Image
"Effective immediately, NIH will...[s]uspend all other funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research"
""NIH will not be accepting requests for exceptions to terminations or suspensions if deemed to meet the Executive Order’s definition of dangerous gain-of-function research."
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Jun 13
"The UNC-Wuhan collaboration sought to create…genetically modified SARS coronaviruses having…a…'furin cleavage site' associated with enhanced transmissibility and virulence."

"The evidence suggests that UNC midwifed a virus that killed 20 million"

carolinajournal.com/opinion/uncove…
"In 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance...applied for, and were awarded, a five-year $3 million grant from the NIH to construct novel bat SARS-related coronaviruses having enhanced pandemic potential."
"Also in 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill—again in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance—applied for a $14 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Programto construct novel bat SARS-related coronaviruses having enhanced pandemic potential."
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Jun 5
"Attorneys inside the Justice Department have launched initial inquiries into...[science fraudster] Kristian Andersen, who is now in the process of fleeing the United States for a position being created for him at the University of Oslo."

disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/nih-dissolvi…Image
"Senior officials inside the NIH are working to shut down a...Fauci initiative launched in 2020 called the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases or 'CREID.'"
"Two CREID grantees have been the focus of intense scrutiny since Fauci’s announcement: Peter Daszak of the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance and Kristian Andersen of Scripps."
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May 26
NIH Director Bhattacharya: "Two weeks ago...the President of the United States signed an executive order banning dangerous gain of function research...Dangerous NIH-approved research will never be conducted again”

limpertinentmedia.com/post/who-manip…
"[B]ringing pathogens...into city centers and laboratories that are not secure, and doing research on them to make them more transmissible among humans [is]...dangerous...I think it's very likely that it was the cause of the pandemic."
"Scientists should not be doing that work. At the very least, they shouldn't be deciding by themselves that they should do that work. The public should have a say."
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May 7
"The FBI launched an investigation last week into security violations at the NIH’s [BSL-4] Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick following several dangerous incidents in which a contractor cut holes in an employee’s biocontainment suit"

disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/fbi-investig…Image
"'Many issues have been known for months if not years and previous NIAID leadership did nothing about it,' explained an NIH official, detailing problems at the facility which was described as having a 'poor culture of safety.'"
"Incidents in November and March occurred under the watch of NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, who was let go last month...The NIH also uncovered poor documentation of select agents, with logs not matching inventory"
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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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