And there's this oddity I found from last year- WTF - WHY?? 
Posted on 11/04/2021 5:08:13 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A petition from advocacy groups is calling for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop claiming it does not have relationships with or accept financial support from drug manufacturers and other companies that might benefit from agency research.
The CDC has accepted millions of dollars through the CDC Foundation, according to the groups behind the petition. During fiscal years 2014 through 2018, the CDC Foundation received $79.6 million from companies like Pfizer, Biogen, and Merck. Since it was created by Congress in 1995, the nonprofit organization has accepted $161 million from corporations.
Public Citizen, Knowledge Ecology International, Liberty Coalition, Project on Government Oversight, and U.S. Right to Know filed the petition. The groups are concerned about the pharmaceutical industry’s possible undue influence on medical research and practice.....
(Excerpt) Read more at ashclinicalnews.org ...
If only we had a real press willing to have asked Fauci questions about this.
The CDC is just another NGO scam org.
The CDC are p0w3d by Big Pharma.
Just check out the CDC Foundation.
Bribes
Raze the building, bury the rubble and salt the ground.
The CDC *is* Big Pharma masquerading as a government agency.
CDC Budget is around $7 billion
NIH yearly budget is $42 billion
List of CDC sponsors
http://www.cdcfoundation.org/partner-list/corporations
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2014 is the year of the big controversy over GOF research broke out, as I recall... But Obama had taken an interest in virology much earlier, in 2009, when he founded the Global Health Security (Agency?) or whatever it was at USAID..
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