American taxpayers footed the bill for over $1 million to support dangerous and potentially deadly research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a laboratory with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and military biological research
The Wuhan Institute of Virology received nearly $600K from a grant that Vanity Fair said EcoHealth got from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
During a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting last week, Fauci denied that the government money the WIV got from EcoHealth was spent on gain-of-function research, saying, “That categorically was not done.”
But National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins acknowledged earlier in the meeting that “we are, of course, not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed.”
In January, the US State Department released a fact sheet that revealed WIV researchers had collaborated on secret Chinese military projects since at least 2017
https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/who-is-peter-daszak-exec-who-sent-taxpayer-money-to-wuhan-lab/
Secret military activity at the WIV:
-Secrecy and non-disclosure are standard practice for Beijing. For many years the United States has publicly raised concerns about China’s past biological weapons work, which Beijing has neither documented nor demonstrably eliminated, despite its clear obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.
-Despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.
https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/index.html