Thu Oct 21, 2021 – 3:22 pm EDTThu Oct 21, 2021 – 3:27 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — A prominent official with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has admitted in writing that the United States government subsidized controversial gain-of-function virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, contradicting a sworn denial from national COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In a letter dated October 20, NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak confirmed to House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) the existence of a “limited experiment” funded by a federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc., 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.”
Gain-of-function research is controversial because it entails intentionally strengthening viruses to better study their potential effects. Despite describing how it works, Tabak refrained from using the phrase “gain-of-function” and insisted that the bat coronaviruses studied by this experiment “are not and could not have become” COVID-19, due to the “sequences of the viruses [being] genetically very distant.”
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July 28th NIH says “no NIAID funding was approved for Gain of Function research at
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