COVID Cover-up?

900 new pages of previously undisclosed information from Dr. Fauci's NIH, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), is beginning to turn on the light in regard to what was going on in the darkness of secrecy.

A molecular biologist at Rutgers University, after reviewing the material, is accusing Dr. Fauci and the NIH Director Francis Collins of being "untruthful"---echoing what Sen. Rand Paul, also a doctor, was saying last May.

Be informed, not misled.

New evidence.

It appears that our federal government has contributed funding to controversial "gain-of-function" research on bat coronaviruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

The Intercept is reporting that in the 900 new pages they have obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, it's becoming clear that the EcoHealth Alliance used federal grant money to fund dangerous bat coronavirus research in the Chinese labs.

They say:

The bat coronavirus grant provided the EcoHealth Alliance with a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments.

The grant proposal acknowledges some of those dangers: Field work involves the highest work risk of exposure to SARS or other CoV's, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.

Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, reviewed the material and told The Intercept the "viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human-type receptors on their cell."

Ebright concluded by accusing Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins of being "untruthful" in their previous remarks on the matter.

He says, "The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director Francis Collins and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful." 

Senator (Dr.) Rand Paul diagnosed this matter back in May.

Sen Rand Paul confronted Dr. Fauci on this "untruthfulness" long before these new 900 pages saw the light of day.

At the time, Paul was asked if he believed Fauci perjured himself in his responses.

The Senator said, "Absolutely, he lied to the American people. There was gain of function research going on with Dr. Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute."

In her paper, Dr. Shi actually thanked Dr. Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that Dr. Fauci runs.

Paul went on to mention two scientists, one from Rutgers and one from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who confirmed the paper studies gain of function---which is juicing up the original virus to about 15 times more deadly than COVID and adding an S protein for the purpose of study. That is called "gain of function."

The Rutgers scientist is Dr. Richard Ebright.

Dr. Fauci has said under oath he has not used federal (taxpayers) money for that purpose.

The exchange between Fauci and Rand Paul become so heated, that a frustrated Fauci said, "Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely, entirely and completely incorrect. The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

Both the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal reported extensively on the matter at the time.

Fox News yesterday: "Bad News for Fauci"

Fox reported yesterday, "Senator Rand Paul says 'I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus at Wuhan'."

Fox notes that Sen. Paul again accused Fauci of "lying" about gain-of-function research during a July hearing on the COVID 19 delta variant.

Fauci responded, "I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement," adding, "You do not know what you are talking about quite frankly and I want to say that officially."

Paul told the congressional committee that Fauci and his cohorts have "defined" away work that is essentially "gain-of-function" research.

Concluding the Senator said, "You're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility."

Takeaway.

Our world is filled with misinformation, deceitful masters of the internet telling us they are filtering out misinformation that would be harmful to us, all the while, they themselves are misleading and misinforming the public.

Professor and scientist Ebright tweeted this Monday of the 900 new pages: "The  materials further reveal that the grants also supported the construction---in Wuhan---of novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spiked genes from the MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus."

The "900 new pages" also reveal that there is a little more "dancing around the issue" in regards to denying that the Wuhan Institute of Virology ever used "gain of function" research.

Some of the research in question was happening a short distance away at the Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, and not the WIV as previously thought. 

Could it be that Fauci's denial of using government grants for gain-of-function at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is true because they were actually using US money for "gain-of-function" research at the University Center for Animal Experiment?  

It has been said, "Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction."

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Prayerful. Be Engaged.