The Shocking Story of NIH Secretly Funding COVID

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The Shocking Story of NIH Secretly Funding COVID

Buried documents expose a haunting and disturbing tale.

May 5, 2026 by Dr. Naomi Wolf

Editors’ note: Below is the full transcript [edited for clarity] of Naomi Wolf’s recent episode of Outspoken with Dr. Naomi Wolf which exposes “The Shocking Story of NIH Secretly Funding COVID“.

It’s Naomi Wolf with Outspoken. I’m here tonight to talk about a huge news story that broke in the last couple of days. It could be thread that unravels the whole COVID virus/vaccine perpetrator issue.

A criminal syndicate, essentially.

Even just this initial gesture is so transformational. It breaks the spell of, “No one can be held accountable, no one can be investigated from the untouchable third rail COVID vaccine rollout, COVID virus rollout.”

I’m also going to share with you some information from 2021 that has been lost along the way or forgotten.

A former Dr Fauci aide has been charged with conspiring to evade COVID-related records requests. This is Politico. Ex-NIH official David Morens is accused of concealing emails about potentially risky virus research. He is indicted on obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges for allegedly concealing federal records about research into viruses like the one that caused the COVID pandemic.

He was indicted by a federal grand jury.

So he’s kind of bypassing that records collection rights, hiding it. There were at least eight FOIA requests submitted for such records by various organizations: Science Magazine, Judicial Watch, the Heritage Foundation. So it’s not as if no one was looking for the records. The bombshell nature of this indictment is that Morens served as a senior advisor to Anthony Fauci.

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-shocking-story-of-nih-secretly-funding-covid/

[PeteS in CA]

That the NIH - and also the DoD - provided some funds to the org that funneled some of the $$ to the lab in Wuhan was news in 020 or 2021. If the Search function on TBR were not (of necessity) disabled, threads about both stories were probably posted on TBR in 2020 or 2021.

AFAIK, the records that were destroyed or are still being withheld have to do with the lab origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus rather than NIH and DoD $$ having gone to the Wuhan lab.

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[Smokin Joe]

The virus was manufactured first in Chapel Hill, NC. The creators bragged about creating a chimera virus. These links are still operational; the articles have been modified to include a denial that this shows the virus was created in a lab. I don't think that has aged well.
From Nature:
A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985.pdf (downloadable)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 Web page that gives information on authors (click on author's name)
From the Abstract:

Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.

Note the Authors, and that among them,

Xing-Yi Ge
Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

and

Zhengli-Li Shi    Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

When the Obama Administration outlawed gain-of-function research in the US (IIRC, 2014), the research was moved to Wuhan, and funding continued.