NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials
Public Health,Science,Gain Of Function,Coronavirus
It’s about time!
At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in the months and years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asked by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) whether an NIH grant to the Manhattan-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance supported the gain-of-function experiments, Tabak said, “If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did.”
The response comes after more than four years of evasions from federal public health officials — including Tabak and former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci — about the controversial research that modifies viruses to make them more infectious.
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