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Byron Wan

@Byron_Wan

Sep 22, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 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.

1/n telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/2…

New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.

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They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14M from DARPA to fund the work.

👇🏻 archived (non-paywalled) copy of the article

web.archive.org/web/2021092118…

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Plans proposed by EcoHealth Alliance to genetically engineer coronaviruses and then conduct experiments in live bats at the WIV were rejected by US funding agencies on the grounds that it could have put local communities at risk.

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thetimes.co.uk/article/us-rej…

👇🏻 the archived (non-paywalled) article

archive.ph/5Fumy

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This has been reported by Russian news media too.

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sputniknews.com/20210922/ecohe…

👇🏻 The Intercept’s coverage on EcoHealth Alliance’s 2018 grant proposal to DARPA

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theintercept.com/2021/09/23/cor…

Nick Wade weighs in on EcoHealth’s 2018 grant proposal to DARPA.

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nicholaswade.medium.com/new-routes-to-…

The Atlantic’s coverage on EcoHealth’s 2018 grant proposal to DARPA

theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

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