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Why Did A Pentagon Subagency Dedicated To Countering WMDs Give $37.5 Million To Firm With Ties To Wuhan Lab?
EcoHealth Alliance has received at least $37.5 million from a Department of Defense subagency dedicated to countering weapons of mass destruction, federal records show.
While receiving funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to study and combat viruses in Malaysia, Western Asia and Africa, EcoHealth provided taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct risky experiments on bat-based coronaviruses, records show.
EcoHealth President Peter Daszak played a key role at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in suppressing debate that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have played a role in the virus’s release into the human population.
The U.S. charity that allegedly funded risky experiments on coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab prior to the pandemic has received at least $37.5 million from a Department of Defense subagency dedicated to countering weapons of mass destruction, federal records show.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provided the funds to EcoHealth Alliance across nine contracts and grants since 2013, the records show. Five of the DTRA’s projects with EcoHealth are still active. The projects involved studying and combatting pathogenic risks in Malaysia, Western Asia and Africa.
While EcoHealth received funding from the DTRA, which exists to “identify, develop, and field solutions to counter [weapons of mass destruction] and emerging threats,” it simultaneously provided $600,000 in taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct what some virologists say were gain-of-function experiments on bat-based coronaviruses to artificially enhance their transmissibility.
EcoHealth provided $600,000 to the Wuhan lab in the form of National Institutes of Health subgrants between 2014 and 2019 to study bat-based coronaviruses. While the NIH previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the EcoHealth research it funded did not involve gain-of-function experiments, other experts such as Rutgers University Professor Richard Ebright said the grant “unequivocally” described the risky form of research.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the center of widespread speculation that it could have been involved with the release of the virus that causes COVID-19 into the human population in late 2019.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/07/defense-threat-reduction-agency-ecohealth-alliance/
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) provided the funds to EcoHealth Alliance across nine contracts and grants since 2013, the records show. Five of the DTRA’s projects with EcoHealth are still active. The projects involved studying and combatting pathogenic risks in Malaysia, Western Asia and Africa.
While EcoHealth received funding from the DTRA, which exists to “identify, develop, and field solutions to counter [weapons of mass destruction] and emerging threats,” it simultaneously provided $600,000 in taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct what some virologists say were gain-of-function experiments on bat-based coronaviruses to artificially enhance their transmissibility. EcoHealth provided $600,000 to the Wuhan lab in the form of National Institutes of Health subgrants between 2014 and 2019 to study bat-based coronaviruses. While the NIH previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the EcoHealth research it funded did not involve gain-of-function experiments, other experts such as Rutgers University Professor Richard Ebright said the grant “unequivocally” described the risky form of research. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the center of widespread speculation that it could have been involved with the release of the virus that causes COVID-19 into the human population in late 2019.
