Who is Peter Daszak? Outrage as researcher with murky Covid links gets $650K grant to study CORONAVIRUS!
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: A research organization owned by Anthony Fauci's close friend Peter Daszak received another $650,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is still under his direction. Until August 2027, the new study will look into bats and other coronaviruses in the wild.
Daszak is the head of EcoHealth Alliance, the company conducting the study. Emails between Daszak and Fauci were exposed in the summer of 2021. In one, Daszak seems to thank Fauci for downplaying the idea that Covid-19 was made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. EcoHealth Alliance previously conducted research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, particularly in "gain-of-function" studies in which organisms have had their genes altered. Unfounded rumors claimed that the Covid virus was developed as a result of this study. In December, Dr Anthony Fauci will step down as director of the NIH after coming under intense criticism. Research in this area "identifies the border region of Southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam as a high risk for future emergence of novel coronaviruses and the potential site where SARS-CoV-2 first spilled over from bats to people," according to the explanation for the funding, as reported by Daily Mail. The study will also check for coronaviruses in South East Asian communities that are near animals.
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