U.S. media outlet National Pulse reported Wednesday, Feb. 10, that a member of the World health Organization team that traveled to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus is in the spotlight because he received research funding from the Chinese Communist Party and allocated U.S. federal research funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research specifically to study the bat coronavirus.
Peter Daszak, a member of the WHO’s Wuhan virus investigation team, has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and his validity and that of the World Health Organization (WHO) investigation team is deeply questionable. The WHO investigation team concluded that it was “highly unlikely” that the coronavirus came from a Chinese Communist Party laboratory. This fits perfectly with the claims of the Chinese Communist Party.
Dashak implored the world not to “rely” on U.S. intelligence, which was “wrong in many ways” and was “politically charged.
In April 2020, Dashak told the Washington Post that although he had worked with the Wuhan lab for nearly 20 years, there was “no conflict of interest. Daschak led the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s project on bat coronaviruses, which received a $3.7 million U.S. research grant to study “bat coronavirus surveillance, bat coronavirus functional acquisition studies.
Peter Daszak is a British zoologist and expert in disease ecology, particularly zoonotic diseases. In 2016, Daszak made 13 donations to Hillary Clinton as president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization based in New York City that supports programs related to global health and Epidemic prevention.
The EcoHealth Alliance has a collaborative project with the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research dedicated to the study of bat coronaviruses. However, the research project involves designing “specific channels of entry” for the coronavirus into the human body, which has raised concerns among NIH officials.
In a letter, Dr. Michael Lauer, deputy director of NIH Extramural Research, outlined the U.S. concerns and announced the suspension of funding for bat coronavirus research.
In the letter Dr. Lauer writes, “It is our understanding that one of the sub-recipients of the grant is the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research and that the project is directed toward coronavirus-bat interactions. The scientific community believes that it is very likely that the coronavirus that caused Wuhan pneumonia jumped from bats to humans at the Wuhan Virus Institute, which may be where the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak began. There are now allegations that the current Wuhan virus crisis was leaked from the Wuhan Virus Institute. In light of these concerns, we are seeking to suspend the Wuhan Virus Institute’s participation in the U.S. federal research program.”
On a program on the Communist Party’s Global Television Network (CGTN), Dashak also revealed that he was a recipient of Communist Party cash. He said, “He has been in China for more than 15 years working with Chinese scientists and the Chinese government with the support of U.S. federal funding and Chinese Communist Party funding.” (video begins at the 5:20 mark)
He appeared several times on the Globe TV network, praising the “excellence” and “greatness” of the network and defending the “importance” of scientific cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party.
National Pulse said the news would raise concerns that Dashak was far from the “independent” arbiter needed to investigate the origins of the Wuhan virus.
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