For the last four years, Dr. McCullough and I have marveled at the extraordinary fiasco of EcoHealth Alliance and its NIH grant to conduct gain-of-function work on bat coronaviruses with its partners at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
We were reminded of this bizarre story this morning when we saw an August 19, 2020 e-mail from NIH Director Francis Collins to Harold E. Varmus-a former NIH director and currently a key advisor of the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the Department of Energy, and several other major institutions within the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex.
As Collins expressed in his e-mail, he was upset with Dr. Varmus for the latter's statements to a Wall Street Journal reporter who'd just published a report headlined NIH Presses U.S. Nonprofit for Information on Wuhan Virology Lab.
Among the items the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance must provide to resume funding is a sample of the new coronavirus that the Wuhan researchers used to determine its genetic sequence, according to a July 8 letter from the NIH viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
"The NIH has received reports that the Wuhan Institute of Virologyhas been conducting research at its facilities in China that pose serious bio-safety concerns," read the letter, which was signed by Michael Lauer, the NIH deputy director for extramural research.
In spite of these demands being perfectly reasonable, Dr. Varmus responded to them with the following statement, quoted in the report: The NIH's list of conditions "Is outrageous, especially when a grant has already been carefully evaluated by peer review and addresses one of the most important problems in the world right now-how viruses from animals spill over to human beings," Harold E. Varmus, a former NIH director, said in an interview.
"What could be more important at the moment?" Dr. Varmus is one of 77 Nobel laureates who asked NIH Director Francis Collins and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar in May to review the NIH's termination of the grant the month before.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-greatest-coverup-in-history
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