Covid-19 Origin
The New York Times claims that covert messages spurring the indictment of Anthony Fauci’s senior advisor, Dr. David Morens, have “so far yielded no evidence that scientists or health officials were involved in research” that caused the Covid-19 pandemic.
IN FACT, Morens’ hidden messages corroborate a mountain of evidence implicating Fauci and his team in causing the C-19 pandemic. Here are the specifics:
- In a 2012 editorial published by the American Society for Microbiology, Fauci wrote that a “moratorium on gain-of-function research” for a “highly pathogenic” virus “should continue” until certain conditions are met, but “scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”
- During 2014 to 2019, the branch of the National Institutes of Health [NIH] led by Fauci gave $1,413,720 of U.S. taxpayer money to the Wuhan Institute via a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance.
- In February 2020, Fauci emailed colleagues that he and NIH Director Francis Collins spoke with “several highly credible scientists” who “were concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates” of SARS-CoV-2, “there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”
- Fauci then continued, “The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.”
- The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) later reported that some of the money Fauci’s team gave to the Wuhan Institute was used to fund “genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized” coronavirus strains.
- Buried in a footnote, the same GAO report reveals that the research to create these coronaviruses “was not subject to” a “gain-of-function research funding pause,” and the lab conducted a “limited” experiment “to test whether the spike protein from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses” could bind “to the human ACE2 receptor,” which is exactly what SARS-CoV-2 does.
- The NIH claimed that this research “could not have been the source” of the “Covid-19 pandemic” because “NIH analyzed” the “experiments” and “concluded that the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses were genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2.”
- However, a study published by the journal Nature in 2022 found that “SARS-CoV-2 progenitor bat viruses genetically close to SARS-CoV-2” “circulate in cave bats living” in “northern Laos,” and NIH grant documents for EcoHealth Alliance show that Fauci’s team funded “experimental work” at the Wuhan Institute to “understand the ability of bat coronaviruses to bind to human receptors” with bats from multiple locations, including “Laos.”
- Referring to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that is supposed to ensure government accountability and transparency, Fauci’s senior advisor, Dr. David Morens, exchanged a series of emails in 2021 with EcoHealth Alliance and others in which he told them that he “learned from our foia lady how to make emails disappear,” “I deleted most of those earlier emails,” make sure “NOTHING gets sent to me except to my gmail,” “I can either send stuff to Tony [Fauci] on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house” because “he is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble,” and “we are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns, and if we did we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them we’d delete them.”
- Morens was just indicted for those actions, and the Times article about the indictment declares without evidence that “some scientific papers” found “genetic clues” and “details” about where “early Covid patients lived and worked” that indicate the virus “spilled from animals into people” at an “illegal wild animal market in Wuhan.”
- In reality, an extensive scientific survey of animals sold at all Wuhan wet markets was ongoing at the time the virus emerged, and it found “no pangolin or bat species were among these animals for sale,” contrary to numerous media outlets and “experts” who reported that the virus came from a bat and/or pangolin sold at a Wuhan wet market. After documenting 47,381 animals from 38 species, the scientists who conducted the survey authored a paper in the journal Nature in which they wrote that “vendors freely disclosed a variety of protected species on sale illegally in their shops,” “so we are confident this list is complete.”
- While ignoring all of the facts that implicate Fauci, the Times article — written by reporter Benjamin Mueller — concludes by quoting a lawyer who says that the “allegations” against Morens are “quite concerning,” but the indictment “fits Trump’s rhetoric of wanting the public to accept his theories on Covid and why the final year of his first administration crumbled.”
