From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to ‘Cover-Up’? Agencies Hid 2018 Pitch to Fund Chimeric Coronavirus
April 15th, 2024Via: Just the News:
More than a dozen federal agencies asked to fund the creation of a “novel chimeric SARS-CoV spike protein” with a highly infectious furin cleavage site, two years before COVID-19 emerged, seem likely to follow the “I don’t recall” playbook of the federal government’s record-setting pensioner under congressional scrutiny.
The onetime lab-leak “conspiracy” has come full circle with the revelation that 15 federal agencies, from the National Institutes of Health to three Cabinet-level departments and multiple components, could have warned the public as early as 2018 of the research planned by China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, its nonprofit conduit for federal funding.
The Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), part of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases led by Anthony Fauci for four decades, was even listed as a “partner” for the WIV project known as DEFUSE, for which EcoHealth President Peter Daszak sought funding at an interagency pitch day for the Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats program.
That’s all according to the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, who asked the 15 agency heads in separate letters Tuesday for more information by April 23 on their “knowledge and involvement” with DEFUSE and PREEMPT.
