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Why the Coronavirus Slipped Past Disease Detectives [200 Million for gain of function in Wuhan and. worldwide]
Scientific American ^ | April 3, 2020 | Charles Schmidt

Posted on 06/05/2021 2:06:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan

Groups of scientists tasked with identifying pandemic-prone microbes were stretched too far and thin

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Rohit Chitale, an epidemiologist at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, says the explosion of COVID-19 reflects a global failure to adequately invest in prevention. “There’s too much emphasis on treating infectious diseases after the fact,” argues Chitale, who is program manager of DARPA’s surveillance effort, called Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT). Early detection efforts, in contrast, “are very poorly funded,” he says. Olival notes that PREDICT received approximately $200 million dollars over its decade-long life span—which is a tiny fraction of the $2 trillion in emergency-relief spending authorized by Congress as a response to COVID-19 last week.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; fauci; gainoffunction; mistakesweremade; usaid; wuhanvirus
It's not just a few hundred thousand dollars from Fauci's NIAID that went to Wuhan viral lab.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spearheaded the funding.

One vehicle for the funding was the Eco Health Alliance (whatever that is) and their PREDICT program.

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/program/predict

1 posted on 06/05/2021 2:06:50 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

These articles exist because last winter the ministry of truth tried to blame Trump for the epidemic because he ended funding for the program, the very program that in fact created the epidemic.

Hot link to PREDICT info sheet

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/program/predict

Link to LA Slimes pushing the same narrative at the same time as this SciAm article.

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-trump-pandemic-program-viruses-detection


2 posted on 06/05/2021 2:18:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

PRINT THIS UP AND GET THIS OUT THERE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THIS

Now they’re protecting the source which IS China and the Chinese Communist Party by claiming we’re responsible
Get News about corruption spiked by MSM Presented and sourced in Free Republic. com/ An all sides news collecting site by volunteers with no ads or fees which uses donations below just a sample Punch up link for http://www/freerepublic.com/
THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

The CCP Effort praised by this CCP scientist working on doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


3 posted on 06/05/2021 2:20:17 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: ifinnegan
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Two weeks after the Election, Fauci receives FBI’s highest honor.


4 posted on 06/05/2021 2:20:35 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: ifinnegan

” reflects a global failure to adequately invest in prevention”

And which administration depleted the supplies of masks and ventilators and things that at the time were thought to be very much needed if a pandemic hit? The same one that lifted the ban on gain of function research just days before Trump was sworn in.


5 posted on 06/05/2021 2:20:59 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: AnthonySoprano
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6 posted on 06/05/2021 2:21:05 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: ifinnegan

PRINT THIS UP AND GET THIS OUT THERE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THIS

Now they’re protecting the source which IS China and the Chinese Communist Party by claiming we’re responsible
Get News about corruption spiked by MSM Presented and sourced in Free Republic. com/ An all sides news collecting site by volunteers with no ads or fees which uses donations below just a sample Punch up link for http://www/freerepublic.com/
THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

The CCP Effort praised by this CCP scientist working on doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


7 posted on 06/05/2021 2:21:07 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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Is SA actually reporting facts instead of the enviro-voodoo and Woke BS it’s been embracing?


8 posted on 06/05/2021 2:39:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: mosesdapoet

Now all we have to do is prove that the Democrats knew in advance that this bio-weapon was going to be deployed.


9 posted on 06/05/2021 2:45:16 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: ifinnegan
The Obama administration paused SOME (but not all) Gain of Function investigations on October 17, 2014. They rescinded this pause on January 9, 2017, just a few days after the infamous meeting at the White House with Obama, Biden, Susan Rice, Comey, etc. and 11 days before Trump took office.

This removal of the pause must be why no one can find the person in the Trump administration who authorized a restart of Gain of Function research. It happened during the outgoing Obama administration! The evil of that administration knows no bounds.

Read the expose including original documents on today’s Conservative Treehouse.

10 posted on 06/05/2021 3:02:23 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: ifinnegan

Take anything coming from Scientific American with a grain of salt. As you saw in the last election they have become a partisan publication.


11 posted on 06/05/2021 3:03:44 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Freee-dame

On January 11,2017; Fauxi IS ON video stating Pres.Trump WOULD have a pandemic to deal with.


12 posted on 06/05/2021 3:11:45 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: crosdaddy

Wow! This is exactly 2 days after the Obama administration removed the (partial) pause on allowing Gain of Function research. Too bad we have an evil Dem party and a complicit Republican Party. If we can learn these things, so can they.


13 posted on 06/05/2021 3:18:48 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Gene Eric; packagingguy

This is an article from April last year.

It was meant to be anti-Trump and meant to garner support for funding these studies again and somehow blame Trump for the epidemic.

It was a pushed narrative. LA Times simultaneously printed a similar article.

The SciAm article gave away how much, $200M, was spent. They were trying to say they need even more.


14 posted on 06/05/2021 3:52:14 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

I subscribed to Scientific America for decades. It was a journal of science which I loved. I have multiple degrees in science.

15 years ago it was most obvious that that once great journal had become political particularly with ecology, weather, global warming (30 years ago they were saying new ice age)etc. Today it is just a shadow of its once great self. Their physics, math and chem are still excellent at those subjects are not subject to political interpretation.


15 posted on 06/05/2021 4:06:32 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist & much more education)
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To: Robert DeLong

Slipped past disease detectives, and you want us to believe this dog sh##


16 posted on 06/05/2021 4:39:11 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun
What, you don't believe this was a bio-weapon released on purpose? You don't believe Democrats were all in on that release?

You think the Trump lost this election fair & square? You think that this steal wasn't planned out in great detail? The only way that it could have been carried off as successfully as it was, was to know what would be available to carry it off. That means that they had to know of the "pandemic" happening for them to be so prepared for the steal with mail-in ballots.

Whether you believe that or not is of no concern to me.

17 posted on 06/05/2021 8:25:23 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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