More questions are being asked about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s ties to the Covid lab leak theory following the release of a series of new emails.
The former White House adviser, 83, was hit with a series of new accusations this week, including that he secretly conspired with the CIA to quash debate over the origins of the virus.
Leaked documents also revealed that Dr.’s top aide Fauci deliberately tried to hide his discussions about the origins of the virus by using his personal email.
And now new reports reveal that Dr. Fauci was engaged in some form of damage control at the time his department was questioned about the financing of the Chinese laboratory feared to have caused the pandemic.
The April 2020 email, sent between Dr.’s assistant. Fauci and an outside group that distributed government grants to China suggested they were concerned about the backlash that would result from the investigation.
Dr. Anthony Fauci (talking to DailyMail.com in July 2023)
Dr. Peter Daszak (pictured left next to Dr. Anthony Fauci) is behind the EcoHealth Alliance and at the center of concerns about the origins of Covid
EcoHealth Alliance, led by Dr. Peter Daszak, helped fund research at the Wuhan laboratory using grants from Dr. Fauci’s department, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
The laboratory had received a share of $3.3 million in US taxpayer funding since 2014 to conduct experiments on bat coronaviruses.
In late 2019, the virus that would eventually cause a global pandemic emerged in Wuhan, with early cases linked to a seafood market just eight miles away from the laboratory.
In April 2020, when 787,000 Americans had fallen ill and 42,000 had died from Covid, EcoHealth encountered a regulatory problem.
Dr. Michael Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research, communicated to EcoHealth at the time that grant funding for the now infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology would be suspended.
Funding would not be restored until EcoHealth could comply a long list of criteriaincluding to provide the coronavirus sample that the lab used to sequence what quickly became a global pandemic, and to share with NIH how the lab responded to concerns raised by the State Department in 2018 about the laboratory safety.
In the photo: the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists developed viruses
Lauer also wanted to find out why WIV did not mention that the RaTG13 virus, similar to SARS-CoV-2, was found in a mine where people developed a Covid-like illness in 2012, and why they did not follow up. on this.
Dr. Lauer further requested that EcoHealth Alliance set up an independent inspection team to check WIV facilities and data, especially to see if they had the SARS-CoV-2 virus before December 2019.
The team would be asked to assess all WIV fieldwork, such as collecting animals and samples from caves or outdoor areas.
In newly published emails between President Peter Daszak and NIAID senior scientific advisor Dr. David Morens, who worked closely with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the two discussed the administration’s guidelines for conducting virus research, the Strategic Plan for Covid-19 research.
Tie bag insisted that the research conducted in Wuhan complies with government regulations for safe experimentation.
But the disruption in funding apparently alarmed Dr. Fauci, who headed the department charged with distributing grants to organizations like EcoHealth.
At the time, Dr. Fauci was also increasingly under fire for what he did and did not know about the origins of the devastating virus.
Dr. Morens wrote to Daszak: “Even while you remain silent, you must clearly document these things for possible future use, in defense of yourself and for history.
“Tony (Fauci) is now fully aware, I think, and I’m told he’s involved in some form of damage control, but again, I’m not aware.”
This is around the same time that Dr. Fauci allegedly made clandestine trips to CIA headquarters in Virginia to meet with Covid researchers and, according to Senate Republicans, “influence” the investigation into Covid’s origins.
Peter Daszak, for his part, now insists it was nothing suspicious in the emails when read in their entirety, and show that EcoHealth “appropriately communicated with senior staff at the NIH, or who previously worked at the NIH, to find ways to secure a grant.” that had been unexpectedly and arbitrarily terminated, then suspended under onerous conditions.’