Coronaviruses enhanced to make them more infectious: the dangerous relations between US bodies and the Wuhan laboratory
Two years before the Sars-CoV-2 outbreak began, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was working on a program to genetically alter viruses to make them more infectious for humans and test them for experimental purposes in bats. of the caves of Yunnan. This is the latest discovery by the independent researchers of the DRASTIC team ( Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Teams ) who, through an informant, have come into possession of new documents showing how the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA, an American non-profit organization chaired by the zoologist British Peter Daszak) and the WIV " have attempted to conduct advanced and dangerous research into the pathogenicity for humans of bat coronaviruses, which would clearly qualify as gain of function (GoF)".
The documents are part of a grant proposal submitted by EHA and WIV to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018. DARPA would have rejected the proposal and the project would have been shelved. But the confirmation of such coordination opens new questions about the nature of the experiments that would have been conducted in recent years inside the Wuhan Institute, in the eye of the storm for the possible accidental release of Sars-CoV-2 from its installations. It should be remembered that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – whose director has been Anthony Fauci for almost forty years – officially financed the WIV through the EcoHealth Alliance with an amount of 600,000 dollars to " study the transmission of coronaviruses from bats to man ".
According to DRASTIC, Daszak's proposal to DARPA – called DEFUSE – was " rejected as to full funding (but left the door open to partial funding) ". However, the US Department of Health (HHS) approved a similar project without the potential pandemic pathogens (P3CO) review in 2018 and 2019.
The relevant elements that emerge from the new documentation are two: the first is that the initiative started from the EcoHealth Alliance , which immediately identified in the Wuhan Institute of Virology the necessary partner for the realization of the experimental program; the second is that the grant proposal bluntly provided for “ the inoculation of 'aerosolized' viruses into wild bats and further work on published and unpublished strains ”. The revelation sheds new light on the cover-up attempts not only by the Chinese authorities but also by the American agencies involved in coronavirus research programs, in particular those headed by Daszak and Fauci: from the appeal promoted by the first in The Lancet magazine in February 2020 to discard any hypothesis of artificial leakage, to the emails in which Fauci's collaborators expressed their perplexities about the natural origin (later published thanks to the Freedom of Information Act ).
The Seeker , one of the members of the DRASTIC team, clearly described the scope of the new revelations:
“ It is very clear what they intended to do: bat sampling, virus characterization, high-risk experiments, captive trials and large-scale inoculation of bats in Yunnan to defuse (DEFUSE) a potential SARS-CoV spillover. They have shown their ability and their competence ”.
Richard Elbright, another old acquaintance of those who followed the story of the Wuhan virus on the pages of Atlantico Quotidiano , professor of chemistry and biology at Rutgers University , said in a tweet that " the world should be furious at this news ". The proposal dating back to March 2018 called for a loan of $ 14 million to be distributed over a period of three and a half years. An amount higher than any other biological research program conducted up to that point in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other international laboratories, including the Californian Palo Alto Research Center and the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
A recent investigation conducted by American intelligence on the initiative of Joe Biden ended with a stalemate, in the impossibility of accessing new information. The impression is that now through official channels (WHO, intelligence agencies, diplomatic pressure) any possibility of ascertaining the possible responsibilities of WIV in the spread of Sars-CoV-2 is precluded. Fortunately, the guys from DRASTIC continue to work on a story that is too cumbersome to remain closed in a drawer.
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