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Freedom Convoy protester says ‘this is like a dream’
Sara Carter reports live from Ottawa on the state of Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy on ‘Hannity.’
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Fauci’s NIH gives another $3.5 million to EcoHealth despite dangerous past of coronavirus research
Just before he retires, Dr. Anthony Fauci has pushed through a new five-year grant for EcoHealth. EcoHealth Alliance, is the U.S. nonprofit that Fauci and the National Institute of Health’s funds, “to conduct dangerous coronavirus research in partnership with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the global Covid-19 pandemic” reports National Review.
Over the next five years, the troublesome EcoHealth will receive over $3.25 million; their first check comes this year for $653,392. The grant is one of four concurrent NIH grants that EcoHealth has; three of the grants were awarded after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The description of the grant on the NIH RePORTER website is to analyze “the potential for future bat coronavirus emergence in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.”
“This is high-risk research that involves going into remote, often inaccessible areas, and sampling bats and bat excreta, and then returning those samples to laboratories in population centers where they attempt to isolate the virus … and then seek to characterize the threat level posed by the virus,” said Richard Ebright, a biosafety expert and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University. “This is one of the kinds of research that may have been directly responsible for the current pandemic.”
The term gain-of-function research has become very controversial since the global Covid-19 pandemic, and National Review reports on the subject:
This newest EcoHealth project wouldn’t qualify as gain-of-function research, Ebright said. Gain-of-function research involves extracting viruses from animals and engineering them in a lab to make them more transmissible or dangerous to humans. But Ebright said two of EcoHealth’s grants do involve gain-of-function research and enhanced potential pandemic research on coronaviruses. And even if the current description of the new project doesn’t involve gain-of-function research, that doesn’t mean it couldn’t later.
From securing funding to completing the research, it is a six-year process, Ebright said, and the project is bound to change over those six years. “If researchers robotically followed what they proposed six years ago, they would not be taking into account developments in their own labs and in the field at any point along the way,” he said. “You have to have this flexibility. That also means you need oversight to make sure the flexibility isn’t going into forbidden areas.”
Going into forbidden areas is exactly how EcoHealth and its president, Peter Daszak, previously got into trouble. Starting in 2014, the U.S. government temporarily paused funding for gain-of-function research due to concerns over biosafety and biosecurity. When some of EcoHealth’s research – involving infecting genetically-engineered mice with hybrid viruses – seemed to cross that line, NIAID staff and EcoHealth leaders crafted work-around guidelines to allow the nonprofit to continue its work.
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Tom Martin
February 11, 2022 at 8:45 am
Roll Good Buddy – we got a convoy !
Brian G.
February 11, 2022 at 6:22 pm
Way to go, Sean. You just hi-jacked Sara’s report to ask 1 question that nobody cared about, and two questions that Sara had just finished asking the truckers about. Were you even listening to Sara’s report, or were you just sitting there thinking, “oh wow… she’s been talking to this group for 4 minutes already. I’d better jump in here and save this report by asking what Sara just asked. Super Sean to the Rescuuuuuuue!!!” I love ya, Sean, I really do; but I also love Sara, and don’t like people interrupting her for no reason at all.
Craig Nelson
February 12, 2022 at 7:49 am
Here is what the truckers know that Trudeau is too dumb to know. Force the truckers to leave and go home and the next step can be the truckers doing just that. Park their rig at home and deliver nothing to the stores. The truckers can be more powerful if forced to leave Ottawa. When the stores are empty, no food or TP Trudeau can eat cake.
Oliver Harris
February 12, 2022 at 1:00 pm
I like the Canadians and support the Truckers. However, I did not know what a scoundrel Trudeau was until I followed his threats, and his lies about what the Truckers stand for. Did he bring Hilary Clinton up as an advisor, or the DNC??
Pherbia Stephens
February 12, 2022 at 1:10 pm
You truckers are doing the right thing; keep sticking together. Maybe Joe Biden should be forced to drive one of those trucks! He would reject even though he has had the shots. He is NOT going to force me to have that vaccine pumped into my body. Each person should be able to choose to have the vaccine shot into their system or not to have it done. Thank you truck drivers for sticking up for what is right!
Marg Humphrey
February 13, 2022 at 5:26 pm
Are you aware that the MSM in Canada has been paid by PM Trudope over $6M to do his bidding? This has been going on for the past 5 years he has been in ofc. I’m mot sure what the grand total is, bit I now only pay credence to Canada’s independent media, for example REBEL Media and there also a few others. These people have the GUTS to tell the truth