The housecleaning at the National Institute of Health (NIH) is taking an interesting turn. It's all sort of been under the radar, not surreptitiously, but just in the nature of other news lately being so much more explosive.
New Director Jay Bhattacharya, himself a martyr of the Fauci COVID persecutions and proudly still wearing the scorched scars of his public burning at the stake for being an infidel, has been quietly going about the business of shutting down the clandestine Fauci operations, while digging into the who and what happened.
One of the little pet projects the treacherous infectious disease imp launched was something in 2020 called Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, or “CREID.”
This is how Fauci describes it on the website.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, today announced that it has awarded 11 grants with a total first-year value of approximately $17 million to establish the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). The global network will involve multidisciplinary investigations into how and where viruses and other pathogens emerge from wildlife and spillover to cause disease in people. NIAID intends to provide approximately $82 million over 5 years to support the network.
“The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a potent reminder of the devastation that can be wrought when a new virus infects humans for the first time,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci. “The CREID network will enable early warnings of emerging diseases wherever they occur, which will be critical to rapid responses. The knowledge gained through this research will increase our preparedness for future outbreaks.”
Each Center in the network will involve collaborations with peer institutions in the United States and 28 other countries. Research projects will include surveillance studies to identify previously unknown causes of febrile illnesses in humans; find the animal sources of viral or other disease-causing pathogens; and determine what genetic or other changes make these pathogens capable of infecting humans. CREID investigators also will develop reagents and diagnostic assays to improve detection of emerging pathogens and study human immune responses to new or emerging infectious agents. Overall, the breadth of research projects in the CREID network will allow for study of disease spillover in multiple phases of the process: where pathogens first emerge from an animal host; at the borders between wild and more populated areas, where human-to-human transmission occurs; and, finally, in urban areas, where epidemic spread can occur.
Each one of his little 'centers' would focus on one or more specific regions of the world and the various pathogens and viruses associated with them.
There was an initial $17M in grants awarded, with a potential $82M in the future pipeline. One of the names associated with the awarded grants rings a bell of infamy to anyone remotely aware of the Wuhan lab story and the gain-of-function research going on there, being paid for by Tony Fauci's NIAID, aka the United States: zoologist and virus-hunter, Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance.
Daszak and his company, after the Fauci funding web was unraveled, and the lies exposed (and recommended for criminal investigation by Comer's Oversight Committee but protected by Merrick Garland's DOJ in 2024), were formally stripped of all Health and Human Services (HHS) funding and debarred for five years shortly before Trump's inauguration.
Today, after an eight-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (EcoHealth) and its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. In a new letter, HHS states “that a period of debarment for Dr. Daszak is necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests.” This letter also confirms that EcoHealth terminated Dr. Daszak’s employment effective January 6, 2025. EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight and willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.
Another lesser-known, but no less prominent player in the cover-up for Wuhan was another recipient of Fauci's CREID payouts, Danish evolutionary microbiologist and professor at Scripps Institute, Kristian Andersen.
While Andersen had nothing directly to do with hands-on research at Wuhan, he had everything to do with one of the major papers that exonerated Wuhan as the origin of the virus. Andersen's paper was considered to be so sacrosanct that it was used repeatedly to bludgeon those who questioned the legitimacy of the wet market and poor pangolin theory.
The paper, Scientic Concensus™ declared, was the definitive proof that the 'lab leak' was a conspiracy theory.
Professor Andersen received a CREID grant.
...Andersen also faced close inspection for his CREID grant. Some months before Fauci gave final sign off on Andersen’s CREID award, Andersen and other researchers published a paper in Nature Medicine titled, “Proximal Origin” that dismissed the possibility of a Wuhan lab accident. Andersen’s paper was widely hailed by scientists as proof, at the time, that discussions of a COVID lab accident was a conspiracy.
Nature Medicine’s editor-in-chief, Joao Monteiro, tweeted that the “Proximal Origin” paper “put conspiracy theories” about the pandemic’s possible lab origin to rest.
Andersen himself gloated about being able to compare lab leak theorists to moon landing doubters.
...Andersen echoed Monteiro’s statement days later, associating “conspiracy theorists” worried about a possible lab accident with people who doubt the Moon landing.
Thanks to Andersen's paper, any doubters about a lab leak from Wuhan were being effectively and brutally silenced by The Science™, and Fauci's cover-up game remained intact.
He could also reward his loyal soldiers.
Only it turns out that there were significant problems with the pristine Science™ in Professor Andersen's paper - for one thing, he'd only run it by favorable eyes, bought and paid for friends, like Fauci and the WHO, among others.
And the calls for retraction began.
...The group BioSafety Now has demanded Nature Medicine retract the “Proximal Origin” paper, calling it a “a product of scientific misconduct.” Two weeks ago, The DisInformation Chronicle reported that the Justice Department began an initial inquiry into the paper, sending Nature Medicine a list of questions that included, “How do you handle allegations that authors of works in your journals may have misled their readers?” The existence of the Justice Department letter to Nature Medicine had not been previously reported.
Awkward questions began that had no good answers from Andersen. There is a litany of Andersen sins in this article.
...Justice Department officials opened the inquiry as they suspect the paper may have been a quid pro quo, published by the authors to dismiss the possibility of a lab accident in exchange for the Fauci CREID grant. Andersen addressed these bribery allegations two years ago during a congressional hearing.
“There is no connection between the grant and the conclusions we reached about the origin of the pandemic,” Andersen wrote in sworn testimony to Congress in July 2023. “We applied for this grant in June 2019, and it was scored and reviewed by independent experts in November 2019.”
The Intercept later reported that Andersen “knew that was false.” NIH records show the Fauci CREID grant to Andersen wasn’t finalized until May 21, 2020, two months after Andersen published “Proximal Origin” in March 2020.
And now all this information is in the hands of a Wuhan marketplace denier as head of the NIH and a Republican administration that was never supposed to have been elected to begin with.
Professor Andersen has suddenly managed to secure a most expedient position created for him at the University of Oslo.
"Attorneys inside the Justice Department have launched initial inquiries into...[science fraudster] Kristian Andersen, who is now in the process of fleeing the United States for a position being created for him at the University of Oslo." https://t.co/hjLUkSJ6O4 pic.twitter.com/rE7VmH0UD1
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) June 5, 2025
How peculiar is that timing?
...Bratlie said that scientists have legitimate worries about the current climate for research in Trump’s America, but these concerns should be balanced with the need to protect democratic principles and academic integrity.
“I would be absolutely devastated on behalf of Norwegian academia if this recruitment happens,” Bratlie said of the University of Oslo’s bid to bring Andersen to her country. “If Andersen has contributed to a cover-up of the origins of the pandemic, potentially extending to criminal acts, he should be held accountable and not be given amnesty or academic shield in Norway.”
I certainly hope Justice has a chance to reach out and touch him before he gets his Northern Nights cruise tickets.
We need an accounting. Some payback would be gravy.
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