"NIH..said EcoHealth had failed to immediately report findings that suggested a 2018 experiment..improved how well a bat virus could grow..violating a condition for a secondary review of research that could potentially make viruses more dangerous."
":The agency said it gave EcoHealth five days to hand over “any and all” unpublished data from funded experiments."
"EcoHealth hit back on Tuesday, saying it 'did in fact comply with all reporting requirements'"
"EcoHealth..said that the results..were not corroborated and may not have been 'statistically relevant'"
(EcoHealth has reached point of such desperation that it now points to the slipshod character of its research, and the limited predictive value of its research, as defense.)
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"Scientists have called on EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) to make its coronavirus research data public amid an ongoing debate over whether COVID may have originated from a lab."
Angela Rasmussen: "There is no reason why sequence data from..coronaviruses obtained in field collections should be withheld until peer review is complete. This entire messy s***show is the result of EHA and NIH..not being forthcoming with data generated with taxpayer funding."
Craig Kaplan: "They absolutely need to share the data."
"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"
"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."
"House GOP leaders are calling upon the Justice Department to investigate whether EcoHealth Alliance violated the law after the NIH confirmed the organization..violated the terms of its federal grant when it conducted risky bat coronavirus research"
"[T]he NIH letter 'raises the prospect about whether EcoHealth violated 18 U.S.C. § 1031 and committed..fraud against the US."
"US government’s Grant Fraud..website..lists 'examples of grant fraud,' oncluding 'misrepresenting..project's status to continue receiving..funds.'"
""[B]etween Sept. 30, 2019, and Aug. 3, 2021, EcoHealth 'received $21,648,574 in grant funds from US taxpayers that..company may not have received if it had timely disclosed to NIH that it had created..virus that would trigger..cessation of its experiments'"
"According to the WHO terms of reference, SAGO members 'must be free of any real, potential, or apparent conflicts of interest,' and 'must respect the impartiality..required of WHO.' The following proposed SAGO members do not meet these standards...."
"Supaporn Wacharapluesadee is a subcontractor on a 2020 multi-million-dollar NIH grant..to EcoHealth Alliance. Her lab at Chulalongkorn University is slated to receive..$1.07 million..Wacharapluesadee’s..subcontractor role..constitutes a conflict of interest and is disqualifying"
"Christian Drosten...signed a letter in the Lancet, orchestrated by Dr. Daszak,..arguing//the SARS-CoV-2 lab origin hypothesis is a conspiracy theory..Such prejudgement is disqualifying; it is incompatible with the standard of 'impartiality' in the WHO SAGO terms of reference.
Covid-19: New WHO group to look into pandemic origins is dogged by alleged conflicts of interest bmj.com/content/375/bm…
"Seven of the current choices..were part of the WHO international team that travelled to China earlier this year to study the origins of SARS-CoV-2 with Chinese researchers."
"Wuhan Institute of Virology manipulated a coronavirus to generate..10,000 times the viral load, violating provisions of its NIH contract that forbade unregulated research that could make a disease significantly more dangerous or transmissible."
"The information was revealed this week in a letter from the NIH to House Republicans. NIH said the nonprofit partner, EcoHealth Alliance, must submit any unpublished data to the agency by Monday to come back into compliance with its NIH grant. "
"NIH’s letter states..EcoHealth violated..provision in its contract requiring a report..should..viruses in its experiment produce 'a 1 log increase in growth.' In other words, EcoHealth was not supposed to enhance a virus’s ability to grow by..factor of 10 without notifying NIH."