Major funder of Wuhan lab told Fauci's agency COVID would end at 20,000 cases

justthenews.com ^ | greg piper

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FOIA docs shows EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak frequently communicated with NIAID officials, passing along talking points for Fauci and asking for help.

The project leader for several taxpayer-funded studies of Chinese bats and coronaviruses predicted the COVID-19 outbreak would max out at 20,000 cases, most of which would be "mild," according to largely unredacted emails provided to Just the News under the Freedom of Information Act.

They show EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak frequently communicated with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials from January-May 2020. The often-chummy messages provide his initially rosy projections, update them on his media interviews and suggest what Director Anthony Fauci should tell reporters.

He also sought their help getting EcoHealth's research deemed "essential" during New York City's lockdown and combating "conspiracy theories" that later harmed Daszak's work, including the lab-leak theory that experts considered plausible from the start.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) email dump coincides with new scrutiny on its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for failing to investigate alleged criminal behavior by EcoHealth Alliance.

HHS confirmed to former Senate Finance Committee investigator Paul Thacker that Inspector General Christi Grimm is not investigating EcoHealth grants despite requests from House and Senate Republicans following NIH claims that EcoHealth didn't comply with grant conditions in connection with unintentional gain-of-function research.

The FBI launched an inquiry into an NIH grant to EcoHealth, as documented in a May 2020 email from an NIH investigations officer to an FBI agent. The email, obtained by The Intercept, provided fully redacted responses to FBI questions from Daszak's program officer at NIAID, Erik Stemmy. Thacker said NIH didn't respond when asked if it was still working with the FBI.

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[Steely Tom]

I read a SF story when I was a teenager in which the opening scene is of a time traveler suddenly materializing in a hidden corner near a Manhattan street. He steps out of the shadows, walks over to the curb, leans down, and empties the contents of a silvery metallic flask into a sewer opening.

As he walks back to the corner to be teleported back, he thinks "that should wipe out about thirty percent of the population."

Sorry, can't remember the story's title or author. It was probably a short story in some "best of" anthology.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Who’s passing the buck? or is that “W.H.O.’s passing the buck.”

[Widget Jr]

What is one more “nothing to see here, folks” amid all the others since this started?

[TwelveOfTwenty]

EcoHealth Alliance is an American company, which means this whole mess was our fault.

Oh, and before you lefty lurkers start blaming Trump, this was initiated in 2014.

[ridesthemiles]

History had VLAD THE IMPALER

WE HAVE FAUCI THE VAXXINATOR