June 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — When President Donald Trump ordered the cancelation of a grant linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology last year after data suggested the coronavirus had originated at that lab, White House COVID adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci resisted obeying the directive, a new book suggests. Fauci only agreed to stop the funding when his job was threatened, the book alleges, and he later lied to Congress when asked why Trump ordered a termination of the grant.
According to a new book written by Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, questions surrounding the origins of the COVID-19 virus early last year led the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to seek to pause payments to the nonprofit organization EcoHealth Alliance, headed by Dr. Peter Daszak.
EcoHealth had been receiving grants from the NIH since 2013 and had collaborated closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study how bat coronaviruses jump to human subjects.
In October 2013 the organization reported it had discovered a new SARS-like coronavirus in Chinese horseshoe bats and had “isolated and cultured a live virus that binds to the human SARS receptor ACE2 and can therefore be transmitted directly from bats to
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