Posted on 01/24/2024 9:34:20 AM PST by bitt
American scientists applied to engineer coronaviruses with remarkable similarities to SARS-CoV-2 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018, just one year before the pandemic’s outbreak, according to newly released internal documents.
The 2018 grant proposal and related documents — obtained by the watchdog group U.S. Right to Know through a Freedom of Information request — reveal that an American virologist working with the Wuhan lab planned to engineer a virus that resembles SARS-CoV-2 as part of a U.S.-China research collaboration called “DEFUSE.” The research project was to be led by EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City-based research nonprofit that received funding from the NIH and routed that funding to the Wuhan lab to perform gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in bats.
While the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ultimately rejected this particular funding request, the application shows that American scientists and their counterparts in China were particularly interested in researching coronaviruses with striking similarities to the one that eventually emerged as a global pandemic that claimed millions of lives. An EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson said in a statement that the research outlined in the proposal never took place.
Gilles Demaneuf, a New Zealand data scientist who has studied the mathematical probability of each of the Covid origin theories, told National Review that data and predictions are now piling up to suggest that the release of SARS-CoV-2 was a research accident.
The new information “still does not prove a lab-created virus,” Demaneuf said. “But it is a significant step in that direction.” .
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I wonder if there will be a new virus every election year?
Yeah and now they’re talking about “Disease X”, documents show it’s been in the works for at least 2 years.
Covid was done on purpose.
So will the next one.
20 times the lethality of Covid, while not actually in existence.
Science is amazing!
Get your vax bro…
Why are these people not hanging from a scaffold?
‘An EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson also denied that the research the organization funded at the Wuhan lab qualifies as “gain-of-function” research under the NIH’s definition, which requires that the virus being researched has been shown to be infectious to humans. Several prominent scientists, including Ebright, have argued that the NIH narrowed its definition of “gain-of-function research” in a rhetorical effort to ensure that the research that was conducted at the WIV would fall outside of it.’
It seems like we have had a lot of re-definitions lately.
Why does the US do gain of function research?
Why isn’t the mRNA vaccine considered gene therapy?
They weren’t happy with the out come the first time, when do we put these pukes to the gallows
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