By Investigating Itself the US Can Answer Many of the Key COVID-19 Origin Questions

High-risk experiments with potential pandemic pathogens are a Pandora’s box that can provoke a pandemic, that much we know. Even if the Wuhan lab turns out not to be the source of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, or U.S. Gain-of-Function funding played no role, it still would not change the urgency of a national investigation.

June 8, 2021 | Source: Independent Science News | by Jorge Casesmeiro Roger

On May 26 U.S. President Biden gave U.S. Intelligence agencies 90 days to report findings about the possible Wuhan lab origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.

One component of this investigation, having subpoena power, should focus on the “U.S./Wuhan GoF controversy”. This is the hypothesis that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded risky research into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), especially during the federal GoF Pause imposed in 2014 under the Obama Administration, and also under the P3CO Framework established by the Trump Administration in 2017. Such a connection, it should be noted, does not automatically imply culpability if a lab escape is proven.

In recent months, an increasing number of official and media sources have drawn attention to this debate. On January 15 2021 it was mentioned in a disputed Department of State Fact Sheet (point 3.3) released by the last Administration.

By Investigating Itself the US Can Answer Many of the Key COVID-19 Origin Questions

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As scientist and biological weapons expert Dr. Richard Ebright of Rutgers University has stated: “The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) [Anthony Fauci] and the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [Francis Collins] have systematically thwarted efforts by the White House, the Congress, scientists, and science policy specialists to regulate GOF research of concern and even to require risk-benefit review for projects involving GOF research of concern…”

“In 2014, the Obama White House implemented a ‘Pause’ in federal funding for GOF research of concern. However, the document announcing the Pause stated in a footnote that: ‘An exception from pause may be obtained if head of funding agency determines research is urgently necessary to protect public health or national security’. Unfortunately, the NIAID Director [Anthony Fauci] and the NIH Director [Francis Collins] exploited this loophole to issue exemptions to projects subject to the Pause –preposterously asserting the exempted research was ‘urgently necessary to protect public health or national security’– thereby nullifying the Pause”.

Furthermore:

“In 2017, the Trump Administration announced a Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO) Framework that implemented a requirement for risk-benefit review of GOF research of concern. However, the P3CO Framework relies on the funding agency to flag and forward proposals for risk-benefit review. Unfortunately, the NIAID Director and the NIH Director have declined to flag and forward proposals for risk-benefit review, thereby nullifying the P3CO Framework.”

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