The Shocking Story of NIH Secretly Funding COVID

[corbe]

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.

<..snip..>

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.

[DB]

 

[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.

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/_Postive_Vibes/status/2053519216725430691

[Smokin Joe]

https://twitter.com/_Postive_Vibes/status/2053519216725430691

Yep. I have been saying that all along.
If they had an effective treatment, the Emergency Use Authorization for the shots would have collapsed and the shots would have had to undergo more testing for efficacy and safety--testing which may well have denied their use, but which certainly would have carried it past the peak panic and into a time frame when people were less frightened and desperate for anything to save them from a threat that had been hyped.
If there's a cure, there's no cause for panic.
Either way, billions and billions of dollars would not have been made by pharma, and edicts (lockdowns, vaccine mandates, etc.) would have been even less justifiable than they were in a time of national panic.

[Bigun]

Yep. I have been saying that all along.
If they had an effective treatment, the Emergency Use Authorization for the shots would have collapsed and the shots would have had to undergo more testing for efficacy and safety--testing which may well have denied their use, but which certainly would have carried it past the peak panic and into a time frame when people were less frightened and desperate for anything to save them from a threat that had been hyped.
If there's a cure, there's no cause for panic.
Either way, billions and billions of dollars would not have been made by pharma, and edicts (lockdowns, vaccine mandates, etc.) would have been even less justifiable than they were in a time of national panic.

  Several of us have been singing off that sheet of music.

[Smokin Joe]

Several of us have been singing off that sheet of music.

Aside from direct contributions to the Democrat war chest, I wonder how much was funneled into cronies' NGOs to be rerouted to the Democrat war chest and/or to contribute to the prosperity of 'the right people'?
How much fraud went on, tapping the various programs set up to allegedly help the families and businesses impacted by policy?

[Bigun]

Aside from direct contributions to the Democrat war chest, I wonder how much was funneled into cronies' NGOs to be rerouted to the Democrat war chest and/or to contribute to the prosperity of 'the right people'?
How much fraud went on, tapping the various programs set up to allegedly help the families and businesses impacted by policy?

I used to be somewhat skeptical of those who said eliminating fraud would take care of our national debt but no longer.

[DB]

Several of us have been singing off that sheet of music.

Yep...

[Sighlass]

Like Pete pointed out, this news has been around for a while though it never really caught the attention of most folks outside of dedicated forums like TBR.

US taxpayers paid China to make Covid probable with little to no oversight.

[Smokin Joe]

Like Pete pointed out, this news has been around for a while though it never really caught the attention of most folks outside of dedicated forums like TBR.

US taxpayers paid China to make Covid probable with little to no oversight.

I'll go a step further. The release was intentional, worldwide (You could fly anywhere out of Hubei Province except  to another part of China). Even the BS about 'wet markets' and the virus being natural was a smokescreen for the distribution effort.
Chinese workers flew out all over the globe, including a textile district in Italy, where people already susceptible to pulmonary problems succumbed in large numbers, and New York, where the infected were, by decree put in nursing homes guaranteeing spread among a population with multiple comorbidities and maximum body count.
All this was done with the effect of inducing panic, a panic the media fed instead of trying to mute.
This release was timed to disrupt Trump's economy in time for the 2020 election.
 
Justified by lockdowns, virtually begged for because of media induced panic, mail-in voting was ushered in, and that gave the Democrats the means to cheat on an industrial scale. Consider that during a lockdown, campaigning from his basement, a candidate with all the pizazz of pablum got millions more votes than his predecessor against an incumbent, trailing when an unprecedented halt was called to counting, but leading in the morning when the count resumed. (Those millions of votes were no-shows in total votes cast in presidential elections before and after 2020, despite the influx of 20,000,000 people who were not supposed to vote, but some did, and not for the guy who ran on closing the border.)

It is how they stole the 2020 election and wrought the destruction of the Biden Administration, from the unfettered invasion of America by illegals funded through various taxpayer funded NGOs (fed by USAID), to double digit inflation, and energy policy designed to weaken the Republic and impoverish its citizens.

COVID made it possible, and the pharma houses that made bank were funding the ABCNNBCBS and other media through commercials. (still are)
If it wasn't a plan, it couldn't have worked any better than if it had been.