Posted on 10/18/2022 4:16:22 PM PDT by algore
A senior US health official today admitted that controversial Covid manipulation research carried out in a laboratory in Boston was not authorized — despite being funded by taxpayer money.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed yesterday that a team from Boston University had developed a hybrid Covid virus — combining the Omicron and original Wuhan strains — which had an 80 per cent lethality rate.
Public records indicate it was partly paid for using a grant awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the federal government's main research agencies.
As part of any Government-funded research grants, teams have to explain what the money is being used for and how it will benefit the public.
But today, Dr Emily Erbelding, director of NIAID’s division of microbiology and infectious diseases, said the Boston team did not clear the work with the agency.
She claims she only found out the experiments might have involved enhancing a pathogen of pandemic potential after reading reports in the media on Monday.
Dr Erbelding admitted feeling uneasy about the type of research the grants had been used to fund — given the lingering questions about the role of virus manipulation studies and the origins of Covid.
Boston University's biosafety level 3 National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory extracted the spike protein from Omicron and attached it to the original Wuhan strain that first emerged in China.
The team then exposed it to human cells in a petri dish and to live mice. The mutant virus killed 80 per cent of the rodents.
The researchers quickly came under fire from many scientists and politicians alike who said they were 'playing with fire' and accused them of conducting 'gain-of-function' research
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Ah, the Sgt. Schultz excuse.
They need to go to jail!
Looks like BS, smells like BS...it’s BS.
N I of no H
Why have oversight committees when they have zero hearings until after a disaster then act all horrified.
The 80% lethality was not for humans but for a special strain of rodents bred to be especially vulnerable because of their impared immune system.
Dr Emily Erbelding needs WATERBOARDED until she talks or drowns. At this point, either outcome is acceptable.
Total BS that NIH didn’t know. LIARS, LIARS LIARS!
The Obama defense.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) threw away any claim to legitimacy it may have once had. Why check in with them?
Who cares? What do you think the next step would be? Why is BU doing this? There is only evil in this whole process.
No, they need to do something else. Or have it done for them.
Doesn’t matter.
Those bastards don’t need to be messing with that.
Check out the names of those involved. Many are names of Chinese origin. They don’t necessarily have our best interests at heart and one of them setting a deadly virus loose here would make them a national hero in China.
The Real Anthony Fauci ... full-length feature documentary
It's Robert Kennedy's book in movie/documentary form. 1 hour and 50 minutes long.
I watched it today. I've never said this about anything in my life ... this is NECESSARY to see.
Watch it and make up your own mind. (of course.)
It’s fear mongering crap to justify Covid fear forever.
Yeah, it’s really only about 25% as lethal on human populations as it was on those “special” mice.
Oh really? You still masked up?
“but for a special strain of rodents bred to be especially vulnerable because of their impared immune system”
Got a source for that?
Bfl
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