Whistleblower: COVID was developed in a lab

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Former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance Dr. Daniel Huff is dropping a bomb on the public health establishment.

Dr Huff makes his allegations in his book The Truth About Wuhan, which is released tomorrow. It promises to be a barnburner of a book, and should its allegations be proven it will upend both the public health establishment and give insight into how government and the media manipulate The Narrative™.

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Dr. Huff’s name has popped up before. Back in September I wrote about his allegations and the whistleblower report he provided to Congress. He released documents on Twitter backing up his claim.

Dr. Huff is not a minor player in the biotechnology world. As a former VP of the EcoHealth Alliance he had a front seat view of how the money was funneled from Fauci’s NIAID to bio researchers around the world, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Huff worked with the Wuhan Institute himself in his role as Vice President of the organization.

In his new book – The Truth About Wuhan – whistleblower Dr Huff claims the pandemic was the result of the US government’s funding of dangerous genetic engineering of coronaviruses in China.

The epidemiologist said China’s gain-of-function experiments – carried out with shoddy biosecurity – led to a lab leak at the US-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he said in his book, an exclusive pre-release copy of which was provided to The Sun Online.

EcoHealth Alliance had been studying different coronaviruses in bats for more than ten years with funding from the National Institutes of Health – and developed close working ties with the Wuhan lab.

Dr Huff, who worked at EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016 and served as vice president from 2015, worked on the classified side of the research programme as a US government scientist.

The army veteran, from Michigan, said the organisation taught the Wuhan lab the “best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species” for many years.

And he claimed “China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent”.

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It will be interesting to see what comes out in the book and to what extent Huff has the actual goods. Clearly he knows a lot about how the money flowed, what was done with that money, and the motivations of the players.

But, if he wasn’t working at the EcoHealth Alliance in 2018 and 2019–the years where the virus was perfected and leaked from the lab, then his evidence would be circumstantial about how the virus got into the wild. It is likely compelling evidence, but not proof.

I actually believe that his claim is almost certainly true. All the links in the chain are there. But something being true and being proven are two different things, and it would be nice to have a whistleblower who was at WIV when the outbreak began. Good luck with that. Chinese whistleblowers identify with the pronouns “dead/buried.”

Still, Huff has at least most of the goods.

In 2009, the Wuhan lab started working with the EcoHealth Alliance on a USAID programme – called PREDICT – focusing on emerging pandemic threats.

PREDICT was designed to help detect and find zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential – including coronaviruses.

Shi Zhengli – the Wuhan virologist who famously became known as “Batwoman” – hoped the programme would create an early-warning system for pandemics.

But in 2014, Dr Huff was asked to review a funding proposal which revealed that gain of function work was being carried out to create SARS-CoV-2 – which causes Covid.

Gain of function work sees viruses souped up to more easily infect humans to help researchers test scientific theories, develop new technologies and find treatments for infectious diseases.

But the risky research method can pose safety and security concerns – and it’s banned in many countries.

It was originally banned in the US in 2014 — but was reintroduced by the NIH in 2017.

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Over the past couple of years the truth about US funding of gain-of-function research at the WIV has dribbled out. There has been lots of finger pointing about how this happened, with Fauci and others claiming it was not supposed to. But we know it did, and recently. We also know that the WIV did gain-of-function research on bat viruses. And we know that absolutely nobody in China or the US would want it coming out that there was a connection between the gain-of-function research and the COVID outbreak.

Nobody wants to be tagged with being one of the largest mass murderers in world history. That would be a big “oops” to live down. Pensions could even be lost. Quel dommage.

So the motive, means, and opportunity all exist. It would be nice to have the proof, not a chain of unlikely coincidences that add up to the preponderance of the evidence.

Expect there to be a massive campaign to discredit Dr. Huff, and further expect that campaign to be successful enough to at least partially discredit him. The waters will be muddied, sides will be taken, and truth will remain elusive. I am inclined to believe Dr. Huff, but I am left with enough doubt because so much evidence remains hidden.

That’s how the powers-that-be want it. They benefit from the doubt.

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John Sexton 9:20 PM | November 01, 2024
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