Thread by @R_H_Ebright

"NIH and a high-profile grant recipient are at odds over the reporting and handling of..risky coronavirus study in China. EcoHealth Alliance, the grant recipient, pushed back..against an assertion by the NIH that it failed to promptly report..result"

wsj.com/articles/coron…

"The New York-based nonprofit said in a letter to NIH that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal that it complied with the requirements."

"The letter is the latest development in a debate over whether NIH’s oversight of risky research is comprehensive enough to prevent laboratory accidents that could cause a lethal pathogen to escape, potentially leading to a pandemic."

"Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s president, said in his letter to NIH that the nonprofit reported the results of the experiment as soon as it received them from the Wuhan Institute..He wrote that NIH staff didn’t indicate any need for further clarification or a secondary review."

"'EcoHealth did in fact comply with all reporting requirements,' Dr. Daszak wrote. 'If NIH had indicated to us at any point that any issues needed further clarification, we would of course have complied immediately with any request.'"

"EcoHealth said that it..uploaded..report that NIH said was tardy in July 2019, ahead of schedule. The nonprofit said it was locked out of..NIH portal when it submitted..document, and that NIH didn’t respond to..query about submission or subsequently request it until July 2021."

"NIH said it stands by its letter to Congress last week and wouldn’t comment further on [shambolic] internal deliberations related to compliance with grants."

"This research needs dramatically better oversight,” said Max Tegmark, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

Link to EcoHealth letter to NIH:
s.wsj.net/public/resourc…

Plausible translation of EcoHealth letter to NIH:
"If you're gonna try to take us down, Collins and Fauci, we're gonna try to take you down with us."