May 1, 2024- by Steven E. Greer, MD
From the House Select Committee on Coronavirus Pandemic:
- HUGE- Today, @COVID Select released a staff-level report recommending EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak be formally debarred and criminally investigated as a result of his actions prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report also exposes serious, systemic weaknesses at the National Institutes of Health that enabled EcoHealth to fund dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. KEY FINDINGS
- EcoHealth used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Overwhelming primary source documents and credible firsthand testimony confirm this finding.
- EcoHealth violated the terms and conditions of its NIH grant by failing to report a potentially dangerous gain-of-function experiment conducted at the WIV. Evidence shows that Dr. Daszak was aware of this potentially dangerous research, yet he failed to inform the NIH.
- EcoHealth also violated NIH grant requirements when it failed to submit a required research update report until nearly TWO YEARS after the NIH deadline. This report contained details about EcoHealth’s dangerous gain-of-function work at the WIV.
- The Trump Administration identified serious concerns with EcoHealth Alliance’s funding of the WIV and instructed NIH to fix the problem. Then, NIH terminated EcoHealth’s grant. This intervention likely prevented EcoHealth from continuing to conduct dangerous research.
- NIH is currently violating the terms of the WIV’s formal debarment by funding EcoHealth’s research. When Dr. Daszak applied for grant reinstatement, he omitted a material fact and misled the NIH about the location of untested samples.
- Read the full report titled “An Evaluation of the Evidence Surrounding EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.’s Research Activities” here