REPORT: US Government Officials Encouraged COVID-19 Origin Cover-Up

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REPORT: US Government Officials Encouraged COVID-19 Origin Cover-Up


Michael Ginsberg
General Assignment Reporter
June 03, 2021 11:08 AM ET


A U.S. government official reportedly ordered his employees not to publicly acknowledge American connections to and funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the site implicated in a potential lab-leak coronavirus origin theory.

Christopher Park did not want to open the “Pandora’s Box” of U.S. funding for gain-of-function research, according to a Thursday Vanity Fair report. The U.S. government indirectly funded gain-of-function at WIV through grants to the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance. That funding was not subject to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) review board that could have rejected the grant, because the sub-agency that awarded grants did not alert the review board.

Park, the director of the State Department’s Biological Policy Staff in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, reportedly told his employees not to say anything publicly in reference to that funding, an individual who attended the meeting where he gave his order reportedly told Vanity Fair. The individual reportedly described his comments as “so nakedly against transparency” as to be “shocking and disturbing.”

Park’s comments “smelled like a cover-up,” according to Thomas DiNanno, former acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. Park had pushed for the U.S. to resume funding gain-of-function research in 2017, according to Vanity Fair.

“I am skeptical that people genuinely felt they were being discouraged from presenting facts,” Park told Vanity Fair. It “is making an enormous and unjustifiable leap … to suggest that research of that kind [meant] that something untoward is going on,” he continued.

EcoHealth Alliance distributed $600,000 in U.S. taxpayer dollars to WIV between 2014 and 2019 for the purpose of studying bat-based coronaviruses. The money was granted to EcoHealth by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institutes of Health sub-agency led by White House senior medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/03/anthony-fauci-christopher-park-coronavirus-origins-pandoras-box-wuhan-virology-coverup-nih-dhs-ecohealth/

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Dr. Fauci admits to funding bat virus research at Wuhan lab, says NIH funneled $600K over 5 years
https://www.oann.com/dr-fauci-admits-to-funding-bat-virus-research-at-wuhan-lab-says-nih-funneled-600k-over-5-years/

[libertybele]

Does anyone doubt that our government encouraged the cover up? The lies of the WHO, the CDC and Fauci?  The DEMS/globalists were out of options to ensure that Trump lost --- this was their Hail Mary.

[Smokin Joe]

Does anyone doubt that our government encouraged the cover up? The lies of the WHO, the CDC and Fauci?  The DEMS/globalists were out of options to ensure that Trump lost --- this was their Hail Mary.

I really don't see any way that Fauci, head of NIAID, was unaware of either the nature of the research or the funding.

[mountaineer]

Excuse the language, but ...

https://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew2/status/1400635194214916102

[DefiantMassRINO]

Why was the US giving money to a wealthy Chinese Communist regime to build a bio-lab that would be dual purposed for (gain of function) research and bio-weapons development?

In whose world does that make sense?

[thackney]

Why was the US giving money to a wealthy Chinese Communist regime to build a bio-lab that would be dual purposed for (gain of function) research and bio-weapons development?

In whose world does that make sense?

When "those folks" who want something done but know it won't be accepted here...

[Smokin Joe]

Why was the US giving money to a wealthy Chinese Communist regime to build a bio-lab that would be dual purposed for (gain of function) research and bio-weapons development?

In whose world does that make sense?

There had to be some sort of kickbacks in there somewhere.

[jmyrlefuller]

Excuse the language, but ...

https://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew2/status/1400635194214916102

Worse, those tax dollars were borrowed FROM the Chinese.

[mountaineer]

Worse, those tax dollars were borrowed FROM the Chinese.

Aren't we already in debt to the Chinese? Was Fauci's largesse just a partial repayment?

[libertybele]

Aren't we already in debt to the Chinese? Was Fauci's largesse just a partial repayment?

I did a Google search and the U.S. is in debt to China for appx. $1.7 trillion.  But also consider the U.S. companies that are owned by the Chinese ... and U.S. soil is starting to be acquired by China and other foreign countries.

American soil.

Those are two words that are commonly used to stir up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can't be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades, which is raising alarm bells in farming communities.

When the stock market tanked during the past recession, foreign investors began buying up big swaths of U.S. farmland. And because there are no federal restrictions on the amount of land that can be foreign owned, it's been left up to individual states to decide on any limitations.

It's likely that even more American land will end up in foreign hands, especially in states with no restrictions on ownership. With the median age of U.S. farmers at 55, many face retirement with no prospect of family members willing to take over. The National Young Farmers Coalition anticipates that two-thirds of the nation's farmland will change hands in the next few decades.

"Texas is kind of a free-for-all, so they don't have a limit on how much land can be owned," say's Ohio Farm Bureau's Ty Higgins. "You look at Iowa and they restrict it — no land in Iowa is owned by a foreign entity."

Ohio, like Texas, also has no restrictions, and nearly half a million acres of prime farmland are held by foreign-owned entities. In the northwestern corner of the state, below Toledo, companies from the Netherlands alone have purchased 64,000 acres for wind farms.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/27/723501793/american-soil-is-increasingly-foreign-owned

[GtHawk]

Why was the US giving money to a wealthy Chinese Communist regime to build a bio-lab that would be dual purposed for (gain of function) research and bio-weapons development?

In whose world does that make sense?

As much sense as us sending them billions of dollars in foreign aid. I would love to see the list of politicians other than Biden, Pelosi and Schumer that are getting kickbacks for it.

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1403188651647975432