Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), not only funded groups that collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but he approved his subordinates’ attendance at a conference sponsored by China’s Wuhan lab, which is widely believed to be the source of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19.
Although the 2016 Conference on Viral Infection and Immune Response, hosted by the Nature science journal, has been scrubbed from the publication’s website, archived versions of the site show that two researchers from NIAID were in attendance.
At the time of the conference, attendee Kanta Subbarao served as chief of the NIAID’s Emerging Respiratory Viruses Section, and Nancy Sullivan was chief of the Biodefense Research Section at the NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center.
Sullivan still works under Fauci, while Subbarao left the agency to become director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza.
The October conference consisted of six sessions: epidemiology of emerging viral disease, persistent viral infection and immune dysregulation, viral pathogenesis, immune intervention and prevention of disease, innate antiviral immunity, and induction of systemic adaptive immunity.
Among organizers and speakers at the event were researchers from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities, such as the current director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and WIV Director-General.
The WIV works closely with the CCP, signing agreements for “All-around cooperation” with CCP city-level governments. In addition, WIV’s researchers have been granted awards from the CCP’s Youth League and the State Council. The lab even televised the National Congress of the CCP.
News about the involvement of NIAID scientists with WIV comes after reports that Fauci’s NIH sent millions of American dollars to fund research carried out by EcoHealth Alliance, the U.S. partner of the WIV. NIAID funded six separate grants totaling almost $3,750,000, which were focused on “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” in China.
This research “unlocked a highly specific doorway into the human body,” the same pathway used by COVID-19.
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