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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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Nov 14
Another lab leak in China:

"Here, we report…emergence of…genotype IV NDV isolates…across…China between 2021 and 2023...These isolates exhibit remarkably high genetic similarity to ancestral strains, showing minimal divergence despite…50–90 years"

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…
"Class II genotype IV Newcastle disease virus (NDV), a historically virulent strain responsible for the first Newcastle disease (ND) panzootic from the 1940s to 1960s, was presumed extinct after its last reported isolate in India in 2000."
"This study documents the emergence of genotype IV isolates...across China from 2021 to 2023, marking their return after more than two decades of presumed extinction."
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"Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci...retroactive to Jan. 1, 2014. That date is key…according to...molecular biologist Richard Ebright. He said 2014 'is the start date of NIH grant AI110964—the NIH grant that funded the Wuhan research that caused COVID"

childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sen-r…
Ebright: "Fauci approved...continued funding in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, in violation of a moratorium in 2014-2017 and a mandate for HHS-Secretary review in 2018-."
Ebright: "Fauci knew the risks and knew that US-government policies in effect in 2014-2019 prohibited him from taking the risks, but Fauci, placing his ego over the interests of 7.9 billion members of the global public, chose to take the risks and chose to violate the policies."
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Nov 4
"US virologist who collaborated with…Wuhan…before…COVID-19 privately informed…US intelligence…in January 2020 that the Chinese lab may be responsible for the outbreak. But…after meeting with…Fauci…the researcher stayed mum about the Wuhan lab"

freebeacon.com/biden-administ…
"University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill virologist Dr. Ralph Baric warned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a closed-door presentation with the agency’s Biological Sciences Experts Group on or around Jan. 29, 2020, that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19, may have accidentally released the virus into the human population."
"But Baric had nothing to say about the Wuhan lab in his public remarks during the early days of the pandemic"
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Oct 7
"The…freeze in US-Russia relations shows occasional, promising cracks…During the UN General Assembly…Trump announced an initiative to address one of arms control's most intractable problems: verifying compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention."

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-russia-biow…
"'[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the biological weapons convention…,' Trump said. He framed this as an urgent priority, claiming 'many countries are continuing extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens.'"
"The proposal found immediate endorsement in Moscow. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered unusually direct support, calling the initiative 'brilliant in itself' and declaring that 'Moscow supports it.'"
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Sep 23
"[R]eckless experiments…gave us a devastating global pandemic. Yet despite that…catastrophe, many countries are continuing…risky research into bioweapons and manmade pathogens…[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention."
--Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, is occurring worldwide.
--Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, caused the COVID pandemic, killing 20 million and costing $25 trillion.
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Sep 20
The NYT today ran a column by its columnist Lydia Polgreen claiming that "Suggesting a transgender link to Kirk's murder is as awful as it is dangerous."

In other words, the NYT now openly affirms its belief that accurately reporting facts is "as awful as it is dangerous."
This affirmation by the NYT that it prefers its readers be misinformed--or at minimum uninformed--about facts unfavorable to its favored views explains much of the last half-decade's reporting in the NYT.

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