WHO probe into COVID origins taps scientist who funneled NIH grants to suspect Wuhan lab
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Funds came from (THE UNITED STATES)* federal government, through science nonprofit, to Wuhan virology lab suspected of involvement in the initial outbreak of COVID-19.

By Daniel Payne

Updated: January 25, 2021 - 9:09am


A scientist helping lead the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 virus himself helped channel federal funding grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2019, the year prior to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

Peter Daszak, a British infectious disease expert, is among the ten scientists leading the WHO's global study on the origins of SARS-Cov-2. Daszak is also the president of New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, an organization which bills itself as "a global environmental health nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and public health from the emergence of disease."

In that capacity at EcoHealth, he previously led scientific inquiries into the pathogenicity of bat-based coronaviruses. EcoHealth under Daszak was awarded a total of $3.4 million in National Institutes of Health grants over six years to study, in part, "the origin, diversity, capacity to cause illness, and risk of spillover" of those viruses.

Among the sub-awardees of EcoHealth's federal grants included the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab in Wuhan, China, that has been at the center of fiercely-- excerpt, rest at link above --

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