I put this timeline together forGain of Function FUNDINGbefore the Fauci emails w/WHO were released so it may need some filling in
FUNDING
October 16,2014 the Obama administration, following a series of lab accidents, and responding to a petition signed by more than 300 global scientists, declared a temporary, albeit partial “pause” on funding gain-of-function experiments in the U.S.
Exemptions to this “pause,” eventually reviewed by a secret government panel, were nonetheless allowed to go forward.
between 2014 – 2016, the NIH and Fauci-led NIAID, first under Obama and later under Trump, continued funding gain-of-function research, overseas at the Wuhan lab, via Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance
*background / in conflict w/ legal document
DATE: 2015 Ecohealth Alliance $3.7 million grant from NIH for study of bat coronavirus Gain of function experiment : How coronavirus spread from bats to people
The first part began in 2014 and involved surveillance of bat coronaviruses,The program funded Shi Zheng-Li, a virologist at the Wuhan lab, and other researchers to investigate and catalogue bat coronaviruses in the wild. This part of the project was completed in 2019.
Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.
February 14, 2017 Fauci's surprise pandemic speech at Georgetown U
Warning :
“I thought I would bring that perspective [of my experience in five administrations] to the topic today, [which] is the issue of pandemic preparedness. And if there’s one message that I want to leave with you today based on my experience … [it] is that there is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming [Trump] administration in the arena of infectious diseases … both chronic infectious diseases in the sense of already ongoing disease … but also there will be a surprise outbreak, and I hope by the end my relatively short presentation you will understand why history, the history of the last 32 years that I’ve been the director of the NAIAD, will tell the next administration that there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that they will be faced with the challenges that their predecessors were faced with.”
November 21 2017, Report from Ecohealth Alliance:
Received: November 21 2017 / Accepted: 8 January 2018 Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARSCoV) is the causative agent of the 2002–2003 SARS pandemic, which resulted in more than 8000 human infections worldwide and an approximately 10% fatality rate
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARSCoV) is the causative agent of the 2002–2003 SARS pandemic, which resulted in more than 8000 human infections worldwide and an approximately 10% fatality rate
December 19, 2017 US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they would resume funding gain-of-function experiments involving influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that they would resume funding gain-of-function experiments involving influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
A government panel was instituted to review each research project. Only those lab experiments that were supposedly 1) scientifically sound; 2) conducted in a high-security lab; 3) intended to produce knowledge that benefits humans; and 4) without a safer alternative, would be funded
In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work.
The program followed another $3.7 million, 2015 / 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.
2020: COVID SCAM
Trump stops funding April 24, 2020