Top virologists who first raised considerations about the option of a COVID-19 leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, before changing their minds on the issue, oversaw projects that earned tens of millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership, recordings show.
Dr. Kristian Andersen of the Scripps Institute and Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University raised considerations with Fauci in 2020 about the legitimacy of the COVID-19 leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which won an investment from the NIH-backed EcoHealth Alliance. a non-profit group. These same virologists, who later rejected the leak hypothesis, conducted research projects that pocketed more than $25. 2 million between 2020 and 2022 from the NIH, according to federal grant data reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
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“Since changing their tune and publicly ruling out a lab leak following secret conversations with Anthony Fauci, Garry and Andersen have earned tens of millions in new public investments from NIAID [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] for unnecessary, deadly and damaging losses. . . . viruses in primates and other animals,” Justin Goodman, vice president for defense and public policy at the White Coat Waste Project, a federal spending watchdog, told the Washington Examiner.
“Given all the waste, fraud, and abuse we have exposed at NIAID since early 2020, it would not be unexpected for the work’s ‘founding father,’ Anthony Fauci, to honor his fellow animal experimenters for their compliance and complicity. to cover up what happened in the Wuhan laboratory. “
The Department of Energy determined, based on intelligence, that a maximum lab leak is likely the cause of the spread of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The FBI said in 2021 with “moderate confidence” that a maximum lab leak is likely, while the CIA and some other company have yet to draw a conclusion.
When COVID-19 began spreading around the world in early 2020, Fauci reached out to the most sensible virologists who feared the disease might have been “designed,” according to unredacted emails received through the Freedom of Information Act. Andersen and Garry participated in calls and emails with Fauci and the former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Francis Collins, who expired in January and early February 2020, the emails show.
“The characteristics of the virus constitute a very small component of the genome (<0. 1%), so you have to look very closely at all the sequences to see that some of the characteristics seem (potentially) designed. I deserve to mention that after today's discussions, Eddie, Bob, Mike, and I found that the genome is incompatible with the expectations of evolutionary theory. the outlook may still change," Andersen wrote to Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020.
“I just can’t understand how this is done in nature. . . It’s mind-blowing,” Garry told Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, a British fitness studies nonprofit, on Feb. 2, 2020, according to emails. .
Garry also wrote in a Feb. 8, 2020, email to Fauci and Collins that lab paints may have inadvertently spawned the virus.
However, those initial suspicions of lab leakage through investigators have dissipated. Fauci has continually rejected speculation of a lab leak, saying in April 2020 that it was like “a bright object that will disappear. “
A month earlier, in March 2020, Andersen and Garry joined other researchers in publishing a study titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2. “] plausible” despite previous editions claiming that a laboratory leak speculation may be accurate.
It’s unclear why the researchers replaced their minds. However, public records show that they maintained close ties to the NIH.
Andersen has led projects that earned about $20. 4 million from the firm between 2020 and 2022, according to grant records. On the other hand, projects led by Garry pocketed more than $4. 7 million from the NIH between 2020 and 2021, according to government documents.
“I expect the House Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus to conduct a thorough investigation into this and similar issues in recent years, adding to what extent the federal government’s reaction to COVID-19 has prioritized the advantages of the medical status quo over the public. “aptitude of the American people. ” Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), who is also a member of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, told the Washington Examiner.
For example, Garry led a task called “Structure-based design of novel Lassa virus glycoproteins for vaccine development,” which was conducted from 2017 to 2021. NIH in 2021, according to records.
Andersen led a task by the “Center for Research on Emerging Infectious Diseases in West Africa,” which aims to thwart epidemics in Africa. In 2020 alone, the center earned more than $1. 8 million from the NIH and more than $2 million in 2021, according to records.
“Americans have been told to ‘trust the science,’ but those emails reveal that the integrity of that science can be compromised,” Pete McGinnis, a spokesman for the Functional Governance Initiative, an ethics watchdog, told the Washington Examiner. “What a coincidence that millions of dollars in grants went to those virologists after they replaced their story with the NIH narrative. “
At a hearing Wednesday before the House Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Johns Hopkins University professor Dr. Marty Makary testified about the lab leak theory. The surgeon criticized Andersen and Garry for proceeding to publish the hypothesis’s perspective.
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“Two outstanding virologists, perhaps the two most productive virologists in the United States Array. . . they told Dr. Fauci his emergency call in January 2020, when he rushed in for a while after learning the NIH was investing in the lab, they said it was more likely a lab,” Makary said, adding that the scientists “changed their minds” and then ran projects that pocketed millions from the NIH.
The NIH responded to a request for comment, neither Anderson nor Garry.