Wed Sep 8, 2021 – 5:17 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – New documents have been released detailing United States funding provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) into coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
The Intercept obtained more than 900 pages of documents as part of a Freedom of Information Act litigation the publication is conducting against the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which oversees NIAID.
Evidence contained in the pages prompted Rutgers molecular biologist Richard Ebright to describe White House COVID-19 advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci’s prior denial of U.S. funding of gain-of-function research as “untruthful.”
Millions channelled to EcoHealth to study bat coronavirus
The pages detail a grant from the NIH to Peter Daszak’s now-controversial EcoHealth Alliance, which has long partnered with the WIV in conducting gain-of-function research, particularly in coronaviruses.
Gain-of-function research “improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease” in order to “help define the fundamental nature of human-pathogen interactions, thereby enabling assessment of the pandemic potential of emerging infectious agents,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The grant, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” totaled over $3 million
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