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NIH admits US funded gain-of-function

in Wuhan — despite Fauci’s denials
By Emily Crane October 21, 2021 1:43pm Updated

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CORONAVIRUS The National Institutes of Health has stunningly admitted to
funding gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at
‘Traumatized’ nurses rally social China’s Wuhan lab — despite Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly
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New York state health council In a letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday, a
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mandate for health care workers
City-based nonprofit that has funneled US funds to the
Wuhan lab — for not being transparent about the work it was
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NIH’s principal deputy director, Lawrence A. Tabak, wrote in
Islanders somehow thrown back the letter that EcoHealth’s “limited experiment” tested
into COVID turmoil
whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat
coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to Shop Scully & Scully
the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” Scully & Scully

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NIH’s principal deputy director Lawrence A. Tabak blamed a New York City-based nonprofit for not being transparent
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The lab mice infected with the modified virus “became sicker” than those that were given the unmodified
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“As sometimes occurs in science, this was an unexpected result of the research, as opposed to
something that the researchers set out to do,” Tabak said.

Gain-of-function research refers to viruses being taken from animals before they are genetically altered in
a lab to make them more transmissible to humans.

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DEPARTMENTOFHEALTH&HUMANSERVICES PublicHealthService

NationalInstitutesofHealth
Bethesda,Maryland20892

October20.2021

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RankingMember,CommitteeonOversightandReform
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DearRepresentativeComer:

ThankyouforyourcontinuedinterestintheworkoftheNationalInstitutesofHealth(NIF).
amwritingtodaytoprovideadditionalinformationanddocumentsregardingNIH'sgrantto
EcoHealthAlliance.Inc.

Itisimportanttostateattheoutsetthatpublishedgenomicdatademonstratethatthebat
coronavirusesstudiedundertheNIHgranttoEcoHealthAlliance,Inc,andsubawardtothe
WuhanInstituteofVirology(WIV)arenotandcouldnothavebecomeSARS-CoV-2.Boththe
progressreportandtheanalysisattachedhereagainconfirmthatconclusion,asthesequencesof
thevirusesaregeneticallyverydistant.

ThefifthandfinalprogressreportforGrantR01AI110964,awardedtoEcoHealthAlliance,Inc.
isattachedwithredactionsonlyforpersonallyidentifiableinformation.Thisprogressreportwas
submittedtoNIHinAugust2021inresponsetoNIH'scomplianceenforcementefforts.It
includesdatafromaresearchprojectconductedduringthe2018-19grantperiodusingbat
coronavirusgenomesequencesalreadyexistinginnature.

ThelimitedexperimentdescribedinthefinalprogressreportprovidedbyEcoHealthAlliance
wastestingifspikeproteinsfromnaturallyoccurringbatcoronavirusescirculatinginChinawere
capableofbindingtothehumanACE2receptorinamousemodel.Allotheraspectsofthemice,
includingtheimmunesystem,remainedunchanged.Inthislimitedexperiment,laboratorymice
infectedwiththeSHC014WIV1batcoronavirusbecamesickerthanthoseinfectedwiththe
WIV1batcoronavirus.Assometimesoccursinscience,thiswasanunexpectedresultofthe
research,asopposedtosomethingthattheresearcherssetouttodo.Regardless,theviruses
beingstudiedunderthisgrantweregeneticallyverydistantfromSARS-CoV-2.

TheresearchplanwasreviewedbyNIHinadvanceoffunding,andNIHdeterminedthatitdid
nottofitthedefinitionofresearchinvolvingenhancedpathogensofpandemicpotential(ePPP)
becausethesebatcoronaviruseshadnotbeenshowntoinfecthumans.Assuch,theresearchwas

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notsubjecttodepartmentalreviewundertheHHSP3COFramework.However,outofan
abundanceofcautionandasanadditionallayerofoversight,languagewasincludedintheterms
andconditionsofthegrantawardtoEcoHealththatoutlinedcriteriaforasecondaryreview,such
asarequirementthatthegranteereportimmediatelyaonelogincreaseingrowth.These

Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH's letter to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH's letter to Rep. James

Fauci has repeatedly clashed with Republican senators, including Rand Paul of Kentucky, who have
accused him of lying about the gain-of-function research.
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begin to cover it here.”

Tabak, who did not use the term gain-of-function in his letter but alluded to it, said EcoHealth — which is
run by British scientist Peter Daszak — failed to comply with the terms of the grant, which required it to
“report immediately a one log increase in growth.”

“EcoHealth failed to report this finding right away, as was required by the terms of the grant. EcoHealth is
being notified that they have five days from today to submit to NIH any and all unpublished data from the
experiments and work conducted under this award,” Tabak said.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly insisted to Congress that the US did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
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According to Tabak, the NIH had reviewed EcoHealth’s research plan in advance of approving the grant
but claims it wasn’t subjected to additional review at the time as it didn’t fit the definition of “research
involving enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential because these bat coronaviruses had not been
shown to infect human.”

Tabak said if EcoHealth had alerted NIH to the growth, it would have prompted a review to determine if
the research plan should be re-evaluated.

He insisted the bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant could not have become COVID-19
because the “sequences of the viruses are genetically very distant.”

As recently as last month, Fauci was accused of lying

about gain-of-function research after documents,
obtained by the Intercept, detailed grants given to
EcoHealth Alliance for bat coronavirus studies.

That grant proposal detailed in the trove of documents

was for a project titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat
Coronavirus Emergence,” which involved screening
thousands of bat samples, as well as people who
worked with live animals, for novel coronaviruses.

The $3.1 million grant was awarded for a five-year

period between 2014 and 2019. After the funding was
renewed in 2019, it was suspended by the Trump
administration in April 2020.

The grant directed $599,000 to the Wuhan Institute of

Lawrence A. Tabak is an official with the National
Virology for bat coronavirus research. Institutes of Health.
National Institutes of Health
The proposal acknowledged the risks of such
research, saying: “Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working
in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.”

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