A taxpayer watchdog that targets U.S. health agencies sued the U.S. National Institutes of Health, seeking emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), dating back to 2013.
The White Coat Waste Project filed a lawsuit on Tuesday (pdf) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) “seeking the release of records related to origins of the novel coronavirus and ties between the United States government and the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” the lab that has increasingly been suggested to be the source for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.
The lawsuit is seeking to determine whether NIH had any knowledge about EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit research group, “was spending the agency’s money at the Wuhan animal lab, and what NIH and [EcoHealth Alliance] knew about a potential lab leak in late 2019 and early 2020,” the group said, reported the Washington Examiner.
Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) who had previously denied the Wuhan Institute of Virology origin theory, thanked Fauci in an email for his statements to media outlets downplaying the theory that the virus came from the lab.
“I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Daszak wrote to Fauci last year, according to the emails that were released to several media outlets through a FOIA request this week. “From my perspective, your comments are brave, and coming from your trusted voice, will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus’ origins,”
Fauci, who at the time in April 2020 said that evidence revealed that the virus spread via animal-human-transmission, responded by saying: “Many thanks for your kind note.”
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