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MYSTERIOUS: Ecohealth - What They Never Told You

Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

Reason

USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency

There remains many open questions about whether the agency's funding played a role in the creation of COVID-19 in a Wuhan laboratory.

Reason

Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?

America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.

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The Media Is Back to Deriding the Lab Leak as a 'Conspiracy Theory'

Even if EcoHealth's "basic research" in Wuhan didn't cause the pandemic, it certainly failed in its mission to stop it.

Reason

In Congress, Debate Rages About How To Prevent the Next Lab Leak

The Biden administration says its new guidance will make pandemic research safer. Critics say it suffers the same flaws as past, failed gain-of-function regulations.

Reason

Anthony Fauci Gives Misleading, Evasive Answers About NIH-Funded Research at Wuhan Lab

At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic.

Reason

Dr. Fauci Supports Suspending US Grant Funding To Ecohealth Alliance

Dr. Fauci supports suspending US grant funding to EcoHealth Alliance over Covid-19 origins controversy.

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Biden Administration Strips Federal Funding From Nonprofit at Center of COVID Lab Leak Controversy

Federal officials say EcoHealth Alliance failed to properly report on its gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and to monitor safety conditions there.

Reason

China warns Elon Musk not to share reports COVID was leaked from Wuhan lab

Tesla is heavily dependent on China both as a market and a manufacturing hub.

Fortune

Congress tightens screws on Chinese tech purchases, collaboration

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers added new restrictions and limitations late last year on Chinese entities trying to buy U.S. high-tech companies as well as a ban on collaboration between American and Chinese government agencies in several technology sectors.

Tribune News Service

Congress tightens screws on Chinese tech purchases, collaboration - Roll Call

Lawmakers directed the Federal Trade Commission to give closer scrutiny to Chinese acquisitions of US tech companies.

Roll Call

Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for Kansas City musician’s COVID-19 death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.

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