The bat coronavirus grant provided EcoHealth Alliance with a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments. The grant proposal acknowledges some of those dangers: “Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.”
Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute, said the documents show that EcoHealth Alliance has reason to take the lab-leak theory seriously. “In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is. They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten — and they kept records of everyone who got bitten,” Chan said. “Does EcoHealth have those records? And if not, how can they possibly rule out a research-related accident?”
According to Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, the documents contain critical information about the research done in Wuhan, including about the creation of novel viruses. “The viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human type receptors on their cell,” Ebright wrote to The Intercept after reviewing the documents. Ebright also said the documents make it clear that two different types of novel coronaviruses were able to infect humanized mice. “While they were working on SARS-related coronavirus, they were carrying out a parallel project at the same time on MERS-related coronavirus,” Ebright said, referring to the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new ... inese-lab/
In July, during sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate, Fauci denied any such research had taken place when questioned by Senator Rand Paul - a board-certified physician and cum laude graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine - and snapped at Dr Paul "you do not know what you're talking about!" and barked "you are propagating a lie!" There are now calls to arrest Fauci, who is being protected by fading patrons within the crumbling and teetering government of Old Joe, for Perjury and Obstruction of Congress. It is becoming apparent that Fauci may be the only person outside of China who knows, and can reveal, the origins of the global pandemic.
