The Fauci Emails

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, Jun 2, 2021.

  1. jem

    jem

    I have a new word for all this lockdown without and evidence of it working... masking and double masking outdoors and for the asymptomatic...

    and all the other bullshit they pulled out of their ass without data or historical precedent...

    Faucism

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    Here Rand Paul explains Faucisites duplicity and Fauci's support of the development of Bio - Weapons.... (to the point of lying under oath)



     
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    #111     Jun 4, 2021
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  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Biden 'very confident' in Fauci amid conservative attacks
    https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-confident-in-fauci-amid-conservative-attacks

    President Biden on Friday made clear he has confidence in his medical adviser Anthony Fauci as conservatives ramp up their attacks on the government's top infectious diseases expert over his comments on the origins of COVID-19.

    "Yes, I'm very confident in Dr. Fauci," Biden told reporters in Delaware after giving remarks on the economy. Biden had left the room, but popped back in to respond to a question about the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.


    Fauci has been a target for some Republicans dating back to last year, when he evolved his guidance on masking and distancing as more information about the pandemic emerged. Former President Trump turned Fauci into a consistent foil at campaign rallies as he and other Republicans held the doctor up as an example of an overcautious approach to the pandemic that had shut down the economy. Fauci required a security detail as he and his family faced threats.

    Fauci has reemerged as a punching bag for conservatives over his explanations for the origins of the coronavirus. Trump and other conservatives have argued the virus came from a lab in Wuhan, China, and suggested Fauci was not forthcoming about the evidence for that theory.

    Republican critics of Fauci have pointed to newly released emails from 2020, published by The Washington Post, that show correspondence early in the pandemic about the possibility the virus came from a lab. While Fauci cast doubt on that prospect publicly, the emails do not clearly show him outright rejecting it.

    "Now everyone, even the so-called 'enemy,' are beginning to say that President Trump was right about the China Virus coming from the Wuhan Lab," Trump said in a statement on Thursday. "The correspondence between Dr. Fauci and China speaks too loudly for anyone to ignore. China should pay Ten Trillion Dollars to America, and the World, for the death and destruction they have caused!"

    Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a Trump ally, called for Fauci's resignation on Friday.

    Biden has ordered the intelligence community to further study the origins of the virus and submit a report within 90 days laying out the evidence for whether it spread naturally or came from a lab, though it may have been accidentally transmitted.

    The White House on Thursday, asked about the recently published emails, praised Fauci for his work on the pandemic response.

    "The president and the administration feel that Dr. Fauci has played an incredible role in getting the pandemic under control, being a voice to the public throughout the course of this pandemic," press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. "And, again, I would reiterate a lot of these emails are from 17 months ago or more, certainly predating this administration, but some time ago in — as we look to history."
     
    #112     Jun 4, 2021

  3. Biden very confident too that Putin and the Russian government were not involved in recent cyberattacks.

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    #113     Jun 4, 2021
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  4. traderob

    traderob

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sc...s/news-story/4adee56c1433fad332a76ffe043390ea
    US paid Chinese PLA to engineer coronaviruses
    [​IMG]
    US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci. Picture: AFP
    • exclusive

    Anthony Fauci’s institute funded research by the Chinese military, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists to genetically manipulate coronaviruses soon before the pandemic hit.

    The revelation shows American money was funding risky research on coronaviruses with People’s Liberation Army scientists – including decorated military scientist Zhou Yusen and the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s “Bat Woman”, Shi Zhengli.

    Their research paper, submitted to the Journal of Virology in November 2019, was funded with three grants from the National Institutes of Health, via US universities. Details of the research funding, contained in the forthcoming book What Really Happened In Wuhan, go to the heart of whether senior US officials were reluctant to give credence to the theory that Covid-19 may be a result of a laboratory leak, out of concern that it would expose their complicity in providing funding to a facility that intelligence agencies suspected might have sparked the pandemic.

    National security sources said the ties between Zhou and Dr Shi supported claims by US intelligence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaged in “secret military activity”.

    Zhou, who conducted the research in conjunction with the Wuhan institute, the University of Minnesota and the New York Blood Centre, was the first to file a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine on February 24 last year, according to documents obtained by The Weekend Australian.

    This was only five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus.

    Zhou is listed as the lead inventor on the patent application lodged by the “Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA”.

    Nikolai Petrovsky, a medical researcher at Flinders University who has been developing a Covid-19 vaccine, said that while it was technically possible to have a vaccine in this time frame, it appeared to be a “remarkable achievement”.

    He said it left open the possibility the Chinese scientists were working on a vaccine before authorities publicly admitted there was a coronavirus outbreak.

    [​IMG]
    Wuhan Institute of Virology’s ‘Bat Woman’, Shi Zhengli. Picture: AFP
    “This is something we have never seen achieved before, raising the question of whether this work may have started much earlier,” Professor Petrovsky said.

    In an extraordinary twist, Five Eyes intelligence agencies are investigating the unexplained death of PLA scientist Zhou in May 2020 as part of their probe into the origins of Covid-19.

    While he was an award-winning military scientist, there were no reports paying tribute to his life. His death was only mentioned in passing in a Chinese-media report in July and at the end of a December scientific paper. Both had the word “deceased” in brackets after his name.

    The Weekend Australian has established that his death has been treated as unusual and is an early line of inquiry under the new Five Eyes probe into the origins of Covid-19 launched by Joe Biden.

    The US President last month ordered the investigation – following a significant shift from early scepticism about the lab leak theory – and asked for it to report in 90 days.

    Intelligence agencies have held information about Zhou’s death for some months but there was no active investigation into a potential laboratory leak.

    The question of the origin of the pandemic was, for the most part, treated as a cold case with few staff, if any, investigating the matter full-time and with no sense of urgency.

    Mr Biden has asked agencies to report back on the question of whether the outbreak is likely to have started through a natural zoonotic jump from animal to humans, or through an inadvertent laboratory leak.

    Zhou worked at the Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and sits under the control of the PLA.

    Born in 1966, Zhou was about 54 years old when the virus broke out in Wuhan.

    His work for the Chinese military was extensive. Not only did he graduate from the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences in 1998, but he won the first prize of scientific and technological progress of the army.

    Like Dr Shi, his research focus was “new infectious disease pathogens” and immunology research. He worked under Wuchun Cao, a senior PLA colonel who sits on the board of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    Despite his work for the PLA, Zhou had ties to the US. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and had closely collaborated with the New York Blood Centre.

    As far back as 2004, the PLA-trained scientist was experimenting with spike proteins in coronaviruses – the point of their infectivity that is often subject to manipulation and gain-of-function research. A 2004 paper that he co-authored and was published in the Journal of Immunology states: “We showed that the S protein of SARS-CoV is highly immunogenic.”

    Immunogenic is the technical term for how well a vaccine works – how well it provokes an immune response.

    In 2006, Zhou, then at the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity at the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, was listed as the main author in a paper that stated the “receptor-blinding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV spike (S) protein elicits highly potent neutralising antibody responses in the immunised animals”.

    The study made clear that they were looking at vaccine development. “In summary, the vaccines containing the (receptor-binding domain) of SARS-CoV S protein may induce sufficient neutralising antibodies and long-term protective immunity against SARS-CoV challenge in the established mouse model,” it reads.

    Right before the pandemic, Zhou and three other scientists from the PLA-run Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology – Yuehong Chen, Lei He and Shishui Sun – partnered with two Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists – Dr Shi and Jing Chen – and eight Chinese scientists now based in the US at the University of Minnesota and the Lindsley Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Centre. Their paper, titled Molecular Mechanism for Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of Coronavirus Entry, was submitted to the Journal of Virology on November 27, 2019, and was published on February 14, 2020.

    The research examined MERS and SARS coronaviruses as avenues for antibody-based antiviral drug therapy to treat coronaviruses.

    Their paper had some positive results: “Taken together, our results show that RBD-specific neutralising MAbs bind to the same region on coronavirus spikes as viral receptors do, trigger conformational changes of the spikes as viral receptors do, and mediate ADE through the same pathways as viral-receptor-dependent viral entry.”

    They found this “novel molecular mechanism for antibody-enhanced viral entry” could “guide future vaccination and antiviral strategies”.

    This study was conducted “in vitro”, meaning in a petri dish or test tube, using humanised kidney and lung cells. Their last paragraph indicated the next step in a future paper would be to conduct “in vivo” experiments with humanised mice or primates. A paper published in Nature Reviews Immunology 18 months later, in April this year, would find that “neutralising monoclonal antibodies” could help the treatment of Covid-19.

    The patent application lodged by Zhou states: “The invention relates to the field of biomedicine, and relates to a Covid-19 vaccine, preparation methods and applications. The fusion protein provided by the invention can be used to develop the Covid-19 protein vaccine and a drug for preventing or treating the Covid-19.”

    The close working relationship between Zhou and Dr Shi supports declassified US intelligence released in January that said the Wuhan lab was conducting “military activity”.

    “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,” it states.

    “The United States and other donors who funded or collaborated on civilian research at the WIV have a right and obligation to determine whether any of our research funding was diverted to secret Chinese military projects at the WIV.”

    Dr Fauci, America’s top medical adviser for the Covid-19 pandemic, has come under pressure over the coronavirus research his institute funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    During the early days of the pandemic he did not mention the type of gain-of-function research that was being undertaken at the Wuhan institute, despite being aware of the type of research that was being undertaken in China, funded by America.

    Dr Fauci, who declined an interview request, also did not alert nor seek permission from the White House leadership before he lifted, in 2017, the pause on gain-of-function research implemented by the Obama administration in 2014. Instead he raised the issue in a meeting with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

    Emails released under a Freedom of Information request from Buzzfeed this week showed that, in the early days of the pandemic, Dr Fauci was concerned that US funding had gone towards gain-of-function research in China.

    In other emails, scientists wrote to Dr Fauci expressing the preliminary view that the SARS-CoV-2 genome appeared “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory” and that it had some features that “potentially look engineered”.

    A scientist who sent one of the emails on January 31, 2020, Kristian Anderson from the Scripps Institute, authored a paper in Nature Medicine on March 17 last year, claiming it could not have come from a laboratory.

    The Weekend Australian has previously reported that a 2012 paper authored by Dr Fauci showed he acknowledged gain-of-function research could spark a pandemic. Writing in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012, Dr Fauci acknowledged the controversial scientific research could spark a pandemic.

    “In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” he wrote. “Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?

    “Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

    What Really Happened In Wuhan by Sharri Markson will be published by HarperCollins in September and is available for preorder from Booktopia now
     
    #114     Jun 4, 2021
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  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Ah, well if Biden says it's alright then it must be alright.

    Shill.
     
    #115     Jun 4, 2021
  6. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Your basis for calling it "false information": Social media says so.

    You're a joke. You always have been.
     
    #116     Jun 4, 2021
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  7. jem

    jem

    That article shows that Fauci (Which is Latin for False - Wrong) Mengele has the death of millions on his hands...


    wrote in 2012

    “In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” he wrote. “Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?

    Yet...



    "Dr Fauci, who declined an interview request, also did not alert nor seek permission from the White House leadership before he lifted, in 2017, the pause on gain-of-function research implemented by the Obama administration in 2014. Instead he raised the issue in a meeting with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy."






     
    #117     Jun 4, 2021
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  8. If you wish, read these two exerpts and note the dates.

    NUMBER 1
    The first excerpt is from NATURE dated August 21, 2020- it talks about the ECO HEALTH researcher being funded by FAUCI and whose operation was shut down by Trump when Trump ended the funding of Wuhan, American funding anyway.

    ‘Heinous!’: Coronavirus researcher shut down for Wuhan-lab link slams new funding restrictions
    Peter Daszak, president of the research organization EcoHealth Alliance, describes how he has been caught in political cross-hairs over his partnership with a virology lab in China.

    To carry out its research, EcoHealth Alliance partners with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, which has been at the centre of unfounded rumours that the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a coronavirus released from its laboratory. The NIH cancelled EcoHealth Alliance’s grant in April, days after US President Donald Trump told a reporter that the United States would stop funding work at the WIV.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4

    NUMBER 2

    Okay, now the next excerpt below shows the EcoHealth guy, Peter Daszak, on February 3, 2021. What is he doing back in Wuhan? Answer: He is there as one of the lead investigators appointed by WHO to do an allegedly fair and independent investigation as to whether there was any research misconduct at the lab and specifically in the area and in regard to the work THAT HE, PETER DASZAK/ECOHEALTH was doing. He states:
    WHO Team Expert Expects Covid-19’s Origins Will Be Found ‘Within A Few Years’
    The team’s leading hypothesis, Dr. Daszak said Wednesday, is that a bat or other wildlife species carrying a progenitor, or closely related virus, infected a farm animal or a person, who then carried it to the Huanan market.

    So Daszak has a vested interest in getting his job and research funds restored under Biden, after having been removed by Trump. And conveniently is appointed to WHO investigation of any wrongdoing in wuhan where he should have been a target of investigation even if exonerated upon the facts if the facts went that way, but definitely not an investigator. Instead, as the second excerpt shows he rode into the inquiry and on the way in set the expectation that "the leading hypothesis" that they would be guided by was that it was an animal to human transmission.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-te...-will-be-found-within-a-few-years-11615415143

    CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIITE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yup, here's our man Peter Dasnak arriving back in Wuhan to see if any nasties were being done in the area. Go get him Tiger.

    It was like the Brits appointing Jeffrey Epstein- when he was living- to investigate whether Prince Andrew engaged in any misconduct in New York. And Epstein is appointed because he knows the layout and types of things that can happen in such places and what the controls should be or should have been.



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    #118     Jun 4, 2021
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  9. Overnight

    Overnight

    At this point this is old news trying to get another bumpf in the news cycle.

    We bought the bullshit, we got our vaccines, we're all coming out of the pandemic and masks are now, ONCE AGAIN, no longer necessary.

    So first the masks were not necessary, but that was BS because you wanted it "for the children (front-line workers)", because all hospitals in this country bought them at The Home Depot.

    Then, masks were required to do anything in any place in the universe, including your own private household, because God forbid, you spread it to the children.

    And then? Masks are only required for people who are not fully vaccinated, because the children cannot get vaccinated yet. So even if YOU are fully vaccinated, you must wear the masks because the children are at great peril and WILL FUCKING DIE IF YOU DO NOT WEAR A MASK, EVEN IF YOU ARE FULLY VACCINATED.

    But masks are not required if you are in a room full of fully vaxxed people.


    Now? Soon the vaccine will be available for all humans, no matter their age. Until then, wear the mask, to protect said children, because they will all die a horrible death if you do not do so.

    Guess what is going to happen when 100% of this planet is vaccinated?

    Wear your mask, because there are deadly new variants in lower Slobovia, and they are spreading. Get your boosters! Wear a mask! Work from home!

    No movie theater for you, because the children are at risk. Oh, and all those old people too. You know, the ones who did not die the first time around. This time it is different!

    This is a phenomenal stage of existence we are experiencing.

    Folks, COVID is going to be with us for generations to come. Even AFTER it has been proven the virus has been eradicated, these fuckers are going to assure the public that we are too fucking stupid to think for ourselves. There is a great racket going on now, and that motherfucker Fauci is part-and-parcel to the bullshit. That shitbag needs to be stripped of any licenses he has.
     
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  10. traderob

    traderob

    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sc...s/news-story/4adee56c1433fad332a76ffe043390ea
    US paid Chinese PLA to engineer coronaviruses

    [​IMG]
    US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci. Picture: AFP
    • exclusive

    Anthony Fauci’s institute funded research by the Chinese military, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists to genetically manipulate coronaviruses soon before the pandemic hit.

    The revelation shows American money was funding risky research on coronaviruses with People’s Liberation Army scientists – including decorated military scientist Zhou Yusen and the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s “Bat Woman”, Shi Zhengli.

    Their research paper, submitted to the Journal of Virology in November 2019, was funded with three grants from the National Institutes of Health, via US universities. Details of the research funding, contained in the forthcoming book What Really Happened In Wuhan, go to the heart of whether senior US officials were reluctant to give credence to the theory that Covid-19 may be a result of a laboratory leak, out of concern that it would expose their complicity in providing funding to a facility that intelligence agencies suspected might have sparked the pandemic.

    National security sources said the ties between Zhou and Dr Shi supported claims by US intelligence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaged in “secret military activity”.

    Zhou, who conducted the research in conjunction with the Wuhan institute, the University of Minnesota and the New York Blood Centre, was the first to file a patent for a Covid-19 vaccine on February 24 last year, according to documents obtained by The Weekend Australian.

    This was only five weeks after China admitted there was human-to-human transmission of the virus.

    Zhou is listed as the lead inventor on the patent application lodged by the “Institute of Military Medicine, Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA”.

    Nikolai Petrovsky, a medical researcher at Flinders University who has been developing a Covid-19 vaccine, said that while it was technically possible to have a vaccine in this time frame, it appeared to be a “remarkable achievement”.

    He said it left open the possibility the Chinese scientists were working on a vaccine before authorities publicly admitted there was a coronavirus outbreak.

    [​IMG]
    Wuhan Institute of Virology’s ‘Bat Woman’, Shi Zhengli. Picture: AFP
    “This is something we have never seen achieved before, raising the question of whether this work may have started much earlier,” Professor Petrovsky said.

    In an extraordinary twist, Five Eyes intelligence agencies are investigating the unexplained death of PLA scientist Zhou in May 2020 as part of their probe into the origins of Covid-19.

    While he was an award-winning military scientist, there were no reports paying tribute to his life. His death was only mentioned in passing in a Chinese-media report in July and at the end of a December scientific paper. Both had the word “deceased” in brackets after his name.

    The Weekend Australian has established that his death has been treated as unusual and is an early line of inquiry under the new Five Eyes probe into the origins of Covid-19 launched by Joe Biden.

    The US President last month ordered the investigation – following a significant shift from early scepticism about the lab leak theory – and asked for it to report in 90 days.

    Intelligence agencies have held information about Zhou’s death for some months but there was no active investigation into a potential laboratory leak.

    The question of the origin of the pandemic was, for the most part, treated as a cold case with few staff, if any, investigating the matter full-time and with no sense of urgency.

    Mr Biden has asked agencies to report back on the question of whether the outbreak is likely to have started through a natural zoonotic jump from animal to humans, or through an inadvertent laboratory leak.

    Zhou worked at the Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and sits under the control of the PLA.

    Born in 1966, Zhou was about 54 years old when the virus broke out in Wuhan.

    His work for the Chinese military was extensive. Not only did he graduate from the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences in 1998, but he won the first prize of scientific and technological progress of the army.

    Like Dr Shi, his research focus was “new infectious disease pathogens” and immunology research. He worked under Wuchun Cao, a senior PLA colonel who sits on the board of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    Despite his work for the PLA, Zhou had ties to the US. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and had closely collaborated with the New York Blood Centre.

    As far back as 2004, the PLA-trained scientist was experimenting with spike proteins in coronaviruses – the point of their infectivity that is often subject to manipulation and gain-of-function research. A 2004 paper that he co-authored and was published in the Journal of Immunology states: “We showed that the S protein of SARS-CoV is highly immunogenic.”

    Immunogenic is the technical term for how well a vaccine works – how well it provokes an immune response.

    In 2006, Zhou, then at the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity at the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, was listed as the main author in a paper that stated the “receptor-blinding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV spike (S) protein elicits highly potent neutralising antibody responses in the immunised animals”.

    The study made clear that they were looking at vaccine development. “In summary, the vaccines containing the (receptor-binding domain) of SARS-CoV S protein may induce sufficient neutralising antibodies and long-term protective immunity against SARS-CoV challenge in the established mouse model,” it reads.

    Right before the pandemic, Zhou and three other scientists from the PLA-run Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology – Yuehong Chen, Lei He and Shishui Sun – partnered with two Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists – Dr Shi and Jing Chen – and eight Chinese scientists now based in the US at the University of Minnesota and the Lindsley Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Centre. Their paper, titled Molecular Mechanism for Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of Coronavirus Entry, was submitted to the Journal of Virology on November 27, 2019, and was published on February 14, 2020.

    The research examined MERS and SARS coronaviruses as avenues for antibody-based antiviral drug therapy to treat coronaviruses.

    Their paper had some positive results: “Taken together, our results show that RBD-specific neutralising MAbs bind to the same region on coronavirus spikes as viral receptors do, trigger conformational changes of the spikes as viral receptors do, and mediate ADE through the same pathways as viral-receptor-dependent viral entry.”

    They found this “novel molecular mechanism for antibody-enhanced viral entry” could “guide future vaccination and antiviral strategies”.

    This study was conducted “in vitro”, meaning in a petri dish or test tube, using humanised kidney and lung cells. Their last paragraph indicated the next step in a future paper would be to conduct “in vivo” experiments with humanised mice or primates. A paper published in Nature Reviews Immunology 18 months later, in April this year, would find that “neutralising monoclonal antibodies” could help the treatment of Covid-19.

    The patent application lodged by Zhou states: “The invention relates to the field of biomedicine, and relates to a Covid-19 vaccine, preparation methods and applications. The fusion protein provided by the invention can be used to develop the Covid-19 protein vaccine and a drug for preventing or treating the Covid-19.”

    The close working relationship between Zhou and Dr Shi supports declassified US intelligence released in January that said the Wuhan lab was conducting “military activity”.

    “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,” it states.

    “The United States and other donors who funded or collaborated on civilian research at the WIV have a right and obligation to determine whether any of our research funding was diverted to secret Chinese military projects at the WIV.”

    Dr Fauci, America’s top medical adviser for the Covid-19 pandemic, has come under pressure over the coronavirus research his institute funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

    During the early days of the pandemic he did not mention the type of gain-of-function research that was being undertaken at the Wuhan institute, despite being aware of the type of research that was being undertaken in China, funded by America.

    Dr Fauci, who declined an interview request, also did not alert nor seek permission from the White House leadership before he lifted, in 2017, the pause on gain-of-function research implemented by the Obama administration in 2014. Instead he raised the issue in a meeting with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

    Emails released under a Freedom of Information request from Buzzfeed this week showed that, in the early days of the pandemic, Dr Fauci was concerned that US funding had gone towards gain-of-function research in China.

    In other emails, scientists wrote to Dr Fauci expressing the preliminary view that the SARS-CoV-2 genome appeared “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory” and that it had some features that “potentially look engineered”.

    A scientist who sent one of the emails on January 31, 2020, Kristian Anderson from the Scripps Institute, authored a paper in Nature Medicine on March 17 last year, claiming it could not have come from a laboratory.

    The Weekend Australian has previously reported that a 2012 paper authored by Dr Fauci showed he acknowledged gain-of-function research could spark a pandemic. Writing in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012, Dr Fauci acknowledged the controversial scientific research could spark a pandemic.

    “In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” he wrote. “Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?

    “Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

    What Really Happened In Wuhan by Sharri Markson will be published by HarperCollins in September and is available for preorder from Booktopia now
     
    #120     Jun 5, 2021