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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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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
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
Read 13 tweets
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Mar 15
"[Former UK Science Minister Patrick] Vallance is facing increasing scrutiny over his role in suppressing the lab leak theory."

"[F]ormer minister Steve Baker said Lord Vallance 'should be fully transparent about what he knew'"

mol.im/a/14503159
"Vallance...took part in [Anthony Fauci's] teleconference in February 2020, after which...scientists began [fraudulently] dismissing the Chinese lab-leak hypothesis as implausible."
"The source close to [former Prime Minister] Johnson said he suspected the scientists were...concerned about offending Anthony Fauci, the director of America’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases..., which funded bat virus research in Wuhan."
Read 7 tweets
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Mar 13
US Court of Appeals, plaintiff's opening brief, 03/11/2025:

"EcoHealth’s direct involvement in unauthorized Gain-of-Function (GOF) virus manipulation and research at its subcontractor laboratory in Wuhan, China...caused Appellant’s injuries" Image
"EcoHealth is strictly liable for Heath's injuries
under New York’s strict liability and negligence laws, given its unauthorized GOF virus manipulation and vaccine research—both ultra-hazardous activities—
conducted at its subcontractor laboratory in Wuhan, China"
"[T]he district court erred in dismissing Heath’s
claims and denying her amendment and caption change, despite New York’s relation-back doctrine, CPLR § 205(a), which permits substitution of a duly appointed estate representative in a wrongful death action"
Read 7 tweets
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Mar 11
"The main reason there are dangerous pathogens…unsecured at labs [overseas]…is…US agencies…have spent billions…to construct unneeded and unsafe labs overseas…and to fund unneeded and reckless research…discovering…new dangerous pathogens…overseas"

childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/usaid…
"Ebright said he found it 'ironic' that the opening first line in the Times’ article mentioned 'dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa.'"

He said "The main reason there are dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa, and in Asia and Latin America, is that US agencies— particularly USAID, DTRA BTRP, NIH Fogarty Center, and NIH NIAID—have spent billions of dollars over the last two decades to construct unneeded and unsafe labs overseas, and to fund unneeded and reckless research on discovering and enhancing new dangerous pathogens in labs overseas."
"According to Ebright, USAID gave $60 million to the 'now-debarred criminal NGO EcoHealth Alliance' to discover new dangerous pathogens...EcoHealth used those funds 'to conduct the wantonly reckless research in Wuhan on SARS coronaviruses that caused COVID-19'"
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