tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post3122834690565281805..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: The Possibility of C19 as a Lab EscapeAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-10436369441610473992021-04-12T15:48:02.503-04:002021-04-12T15:48:02.503-04:00She mentioned there was someone like this - in fac...She mentioned there was someone like this - in fact, that several of her critics were similarly compromised - though she was very polite and named no names. Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-46815444223113673912021-04-12T15:44:32.005-04:002021-04-12T15:44:32.005-04:00Some additional data. The story appears more meas...<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741" rel="nofollow">Some additional data.</a> The story appears more measured than the scary headline and first paragraph, and it ran in late April before Ms Chan's story in the same outlet.<br /><br /><i>But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.</i><br /><br /><i>The NIH research consisted of two parts. The first part began in 2014 and involved surveillance of bat coronaviruses, and had a budget of $3.7 million. The program funded Shi Zheng-Li, a virologist at the Wuhan lab, and other researchers to investigate and catalogue bat coronaviruses in the wild. This part of the project was completed in 2019.<br /><br />A second phase of the project, beginning that year, included additional surveillance work but also gain-of-function research for the purpose of understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. <b>The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit research group, under the direction of President Peter Daszak, an expert on disease ecology.</b> NIH canceled the project just this past Friday, April 24th, Politico reported. Daszak did not immediately respond to Newsweek requests for comment.</i><br /><br />Note that this guy also shows up in the report about Ms. Chan to pour cold water on the idea that the lab might have been involved.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com