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COVID-origins research group disbanded over ties to controversial Fauci-backed scientist

Updated: October 4, 2021 at 11:57 am EST  See Comments

Mon Oct 4, 2021 – 11:16 am EDT

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(WND News Center) – The COVID-19 origins task force, affiliated with the prominent British scientific journal The Lancet, has disbanded because of its connection to the controversial researcher whose work on bat coronaviruses was funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency.

The researcher, New York-based British zoologist Peter Daszak, led the Lancet COVID-19 Commission until he recused himself from that role in June because of a clear conflict of interest. Daszak was the sole U.S. representative on a World Health Organization panel that concluded the novel coronavirus pandemic had a natural origin. But evidence continues to emerge that the virus was engineered in the dangerous gain-of-function research he helped lead at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Now, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, the current chairman of the commission, says the commission is being disbanded.

“I just didn’t want a task force that was so clearly involved with one of the main issues of this whole search for the origins, which was EcoHealth Alliance,” Sachs told the Wall Street Journal.

Daszak is the founder of EcoHealth Alliance, which has received funding

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