NIH Presses U.S. Nonprofit for Information on Wuhan Virology Lab

[Mary Wilson]

National Institutes of Health told EcoHealth Alliance it must hand over information and materials from Chinese research facility to resume funding for suspended grant.

By Betsy McKay
Aug. 19, 2020 5:30 am ET

The National Institutes of Health told a small New York-based nonprofit that it must hand over information and materials from a research partner in Wuhan, China, that is under scrutiny by the Trump administration to win back a multimillion-dollar research grant.

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.

EcoHealth Alliance must also arrange for an inspection of the Wuhan Institute of Virology by an outside team that would examine the facility’s lab and records “with specific attention to addressing the question of whether WIV staff had SARS-CoV-2 in their possession prior to December 2019,” the U.S. health-research agency’s letter said.

“The NIH has received reports that the Wuhan Institute of Virology…has been conducting research at its facilities in China that pose serious bio-safety concerns,” ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nih-pr...han-virology-lab-11597829400?mod=hp_lead_pos7

 

[JJackson]

This is a sad day! How on earth is a "small NY based non-profit" going to get China to give it an infectious virus from China and access to the WIV. Think of it the other way around and see if it makes sense. China accuses the US of creating a pandemic virus and has received reports that a US Military research lab has been conducting research at its facilities in the USA that pose serious bio-safety concerns. They then demand access to the lab , samples and data. They pull funding from one of their own non-profits because it had been doing research on these viruses in America. At the same time the consensus in the virology community, that works on this family of viruses, is that it is not manipulated and more research in the animal host is a priority. There is no evidence only 'have received reports' - probably from twitter.

Rational thinking seems to have died of COVID. R.I.P​

 

[Mary Wilson]

One minute it is black.
The next minute it is white.
One minute it is go.
The next minute it is stop.
Covid-19 virus fog has descended upon our Earth.