The leader of a nonprofit group with close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology personally thanked Dr. Anthony Fauci in April 2020 for publicly rejecting the notion that the lab could be connected to the release of COVID-19.

EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak’s April 18, 2020, email to Fauci was part of a 3,200-page batch of Fauci’s emails obtained by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. A large portion of Daszak’s email to Fauci was redacted with an FOIA exemption indicating the text could reasonably be expected to interfere with law enforcement proceedings.

Daszak personally thanked Fauci in the email for the bravery he exhibited during a White House press briefing the day prior when he said the novel coronavirus exhibits features that are “totally consistent” with an animal to the human origin and that don’t point to lab manipulation.

https://www.ntd.com/us-researcher-with-ties-to-wuhan-lab-personally-thanked-fauci-in-april-2020-for-dispelling-lab-leak-theory-myths_621823.html