Tag: EcoHealth Alliance

Ernst Proposes to Ban Federal Funding of EcoHealth Alliance, Gain-of-Function Research

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) vowed on Nov. 1 to introduce legislation requiring “a full investigation of all U.S. funding of gain-of-function research in China,” and a ban on federal funding to a New York foundation that works closely with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). “I want to see the Wuhan lab come clean, for…


Ernst Proposes Cutting Off Federal Funding of EcoHealth Alliance, Gain-of-Function Research

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) vowed Monday to introduce legislation requiring “a full investigation of all U.S. funding of gain-of-function research in China,” and a cut-off of federal funding to a New York foundation that works closely with Beijing’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). “I want to see the Wuhan lab come clean, for EcoHealth Alliance…


Top Republicans Call for DOJ to Investigate If EcoHealth Alliance Broke Law

Top Republicans in Congress are asking the Department of Justice to investigate a global nonprofit that funneled U.S. taxpayer money to Chinese scientists but failed to abide by a grant agreement in doing so. EcoHealth Alliance, which received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2014 to 2019, broke the agreement…


EpochTV Review: If It Walks Like a Duck…

Commentary In recent days, the National Institute of Health admitted to funding what could arguably be called gain of function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in what many have termed a shocking turn of events. A top official at the NIH, Lawrence A. Tabak, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman…


Live Q&A: Wuhan Scientists Planned to Release Coronaviruses; NIH Accused of Financing Research

Scientists in Wuhan, China, were planning to release coronaviruses—which had been altered to infect humans—among bats, according to grant proposals going back to 2018. And in other news, EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak allegedly stated in a 2017 Consortium that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health agency had financed his controversial work on coronaviruses…


Internal Documents Raise Questions on US Grants to China: House Lawmakers

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the ranking minority member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and two other Republican representatives, are pressing Dr. Anthony Fauci for answers, after newly disclosed documents revealed that U.S. money went to China for coronavirus research. Among the documents, obtained by The Intercept through the Freedom of Information Act,…


Newly-Released Documents Detail US-Funded Coronavirus Research at Wuhan Institute of Virology: Report

New documents have been released detailing U.S.-funded research on various types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the first outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus occurred. More than 900 pages of materials were obtained by The Intercept in connection with a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the publication against the National…


Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Some Alarming Possibilities

Commentary For over a year, the American establishment and media have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, “journalists” and “experts” conceded that the Wuhan lab may well have been the most likely genesis. Why…


Federal Auditors to Investigate NIH’s Grants to Wuhan Lab

Auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector-General (OIG) are probing whether National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials properly managed research grants that ended up partially funding controversial “gain-of-function” research by China’s Wuhan lab. “The OIG has previously identified NIH’s oversight of grants to foreign applicants as a potential risk…


Funding to Wuhan Lab Prompts Sen Ernst to Propose Bill Requiring Disclosure

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is introducing legislation to ensure federal grant recipients like the EcoHealth Alliance disclose to the funding agencies whenever they in turn pass funds to other recipients like China’s Wuhan lab. “Despite skirting federal law and refusing to disclose how much U.S. taxpayer money was funneled to Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of…