NIH Admits Funding Gain-Of-Function COVID Experiments, Gives EcoHealth Five Days To Report Data

A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that the U.S.-funded so-called “gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, China – and that the U.S. nonprofit which conducted it, EcoHealth Alliance – led by the controversial Peter Daszak, “failed to report” that they had created a chimeric bat coronavirus which could infect humans. In a letter addressed to Rep. James Comer (R-KY), NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak cites a “limited experiment” to determine whether “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” According to the…