Government Debars Notorious Fauci Crony, Gain-Of-Function Mastermind Peter Daszak
HHS formally debarred the president of EcoHealth Alliance over funding for gain-of-function research, the House Oversight Committee announced Friday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) formally debarred Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a company which coordinated with Dr. Anthony Fauciâs aides to receive funding for gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, according to documents the House Oversight Committee released Friday.
HHS debarred and cut funding to both Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based nonprofit which researches pandemics. EcoHealth also terminated Daszakâs employment, according to a series of letters the House Oversight Committee made public.
The action taken by the agency is the culmination of an eight-month investigation which started in May 2024 when HHS suspended Daszak and proposed his debarment, HHS wrote in a letter to EcoHealthâs lawyer.
âThe suspension and proposed debarment actions were based on information that Dr. Daszak lacks the present responsibility to participate in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs,â HHS wrote.
The debarment, which is retroactive to a May 2024 suspension for both Daszak and EcoHealth, will last for a period of five years. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: House Committee Demands Fauci Cough Up Info From Personal Devices After Adviser Admitted To Dodging FOIAs)
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, praised the decision on X.
âBad actor EcoHealth Alliance & its corrupt former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, were formally debarred by HHS for using taxpayer funds to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in China,â Comer wrote Saturday.
The U.S. government had awarded EcoHealth Alliance a 2014 grant to study viruses. The grant was also awarded to a subrecipient, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The grant was contingent on both EcoHealth and the WIVâs âadherence to specific biocontainment safety (biosafety) requirements,â according to documents published by House Oversight.
Months before the government awarded the grant, President Obamaâs White House issued a funding pause on gain-of-function research. The government described the nature of gain-of-function research as projects âthat may be reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), or severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory rout.â
Under that pause, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAIAD), which Dr. Anthony Fauci headed between Nov. 2, 1984 and Dec. 31, 2022, issued a 2016 letter to EcoHealth warning that gain-of-function research would not be funded. It also requested EcoHealth submit documentation proving their research did not fall under gain-of-function.
EcoHealth responded, claiming their work, which they characterized as the construction of âMERS and MERS-like chimeric CoVs in order to understand the potential origins of MERSCoV in bats by studying bat MERS-like CoVs in detail,â was âhighly unlikelyâ to have any pathogenic potential. The nonprofit vowed to cease all research and immediately notify NAIAD if their experiments showed âevidence of enhanced virus growth greater than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases.â
Then, under new White House guidance issued in 2017, the funding pause was lifted provided adherence to certain stipulations. One such stipulation was immediately notifying the NAIAD if a virus being studied grew greater viral capacity by â1 log compared to wild type strains.â
EcoHealth alliance had been two years late on submitting necessary documentation for year five of their original grant, documents released by House Oversight show. When they finally submitted it in August 2021, the National Institute of Health (NIH) found that a year five experiment âhad possibly yielded a greater than 1 log increase in vial activity.â EcoHealth made no effort to notify NIH or NAIAD of that development, according to the documents.
EcoHealth challenged that assessment, insisting the evidence from the year five experiment was taken from the same sample as a year four experiment which did not produce a one log increase in viral activity. The NIH, however, found the basis of their challenge âwas describing a different experiment.â Daszak and EcoHealth insisted the experiments were different.
When the NIH requested experiment notebooks from EcoHealth and WIV to prove Daszakâs claims, they were unable to provide them.
A key basis of the HHS reccomendation to debar Daszak was his insistence that the year five experiment, which appeared to show âsubstantially greater mortality rates and to more than a 1-log increase in viral activity,â was taken from the same sample as a year four experiment which did not have the same level of viral increase. âIt is very important that these facts be acknowledged,â Daszak wrote to the NIH.
Daszak also blamed EcoHealthâs two-years tardy report on a âsystems lockout.â The NIH, however, âconducted a detailed forensic investigation indicating that Dr. Daszak and EHA were never locked out of the NIH eRA grants system after June 19, 2021.â
Daszak had consistently communicated with top Fauci aide David Morens through what Morens described as âa secret backchannel.â While Morens testified to the Oversight Committee that his use of the term âsecret backchannelâ was a joke, the pair communicated and appeared to conduct business over personal accounts and not through Morensâs official NAIAD email.
âPeter I just got news that a FOIA picked up an e-mail I sent you saying Tony commented that he was braindead. I deleted that e-mail, but I now learned that every e-mail I ever got since 1998 is captured and will be turned over whether or not instantly deleted,â Morens emailed Daszak in 2021.
âI learned from our FOIA lady here how to make e-mails disappear after Iâm FOIAâd but before the search starts so I think weâre all safe. Plus I deleted most of those earlier e-mails after sending them to GMail,â Morens wrote in another email.
Morens separately wrote, âWeâre all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns and we wouldnât put them in e-mails and if we found them we would delete them.â
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Finally, the preview ends with a brief glimpse of Sieun and Park Nam Jung performing âA Whole New Worldâ from the âAladdinâ soundtrack together.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mR_4AKcpo
âKnowing Brosâ airs on Saturdays at 8:50 p.m. KST.
Watch full episodes of âKnowing Brosâ with subtitles on Viki below:
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On January 18, the popular variety show aired a sneak peek of its upcoming Lunar New Year special, which will feature three celebrity family duos as guests. KISS OF LIFEâs Belle and STAYCâs Sieun will appear together with their respective fathers Shim Sin and Park Nam Jung, both of whom are legendary singers in Korea. Sisters BIBI and tripleSâs NaKyoung will also be guesting on the show together.
In the newly released preview, Sieun dances with Park Nam Jung to his iconic hit âDreaming of You,â which is famous for its choreography. Meanwhile, Shim Sin sings KISS OF LIFEâs hit song âStickyâ together in a special duet with Belle.
After BIBI enviously says she wishes she were Park Nam Jungâs or Shim Sinâs daughter, she remarks that she and sister NaKyoung didnât fight much while they were growing up. However, NaKyoung swiftly begs to differ, insisting they fought a lot. Later, the two siblings playfully sing Block Bâs âNillili Mamboâ together.
The guests and âKnowing Brosâ cast members then don hanbok (traditional Korean clothing) to play a guessing game together. When Sieun argues with her dad over a story about an amusement park trip, Lee Sang Minâwho doesnât have children of his ownâwoefully shares, âI want to argue with my daughter too.â
Finally, the preview ends with a brief glimpse of Sieun and Park Nam Jung performing âA Whole New Worldâ from the âAladdinâ soundtrack together.
Check out the full preview below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mR_4AKcpo
âKnowing Brosâ airs on Saturdays at 8:50 p.m. KST.
Watch full episodes of âKnowing Brosâ with subtitles on Viki below:
[viki-watchnow url=https://www.viki.com/tv/36478c-ask-us-anything?locale=en]
Or watch BIBI in her film âHopelessâ below!
[viki-watchnow url=https://www.viki.com/movies/40648c-hopeless]
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