Boston lab creates a Wuhan-Omicron chimeric virus, killing 80% of humanised lab mice

On October 14, 2022 the Boston University School of Medicine published a pre-print paper (not yet peer reviewed) that shows the authors had created a chimeric lab virus taking the Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 virus "body" and inserting the more "infectious" Omicron BA.1 spike proteins onto it, this resulted in 8 out of 10 (80%) humanised lab mice dying.  The chimeric virus resulted in more severe disease - a virus that gained in its function!  [1, 2, 4] The director of NIAID was allegedly not aware this pathogenic potential research was being conducted in the US, Boston Uni claimed they didn't have to clear the research with the NIAID!  On Dec. 19, 2017 the NIH clears a pathway to release the 2014 moratorium on such gain-of-function research. [3] SARS-CoV-2 was likely already a lab created chimeric virus - HERE

Three Wuhan virology lab staff fall ill – in June 2023 they were named “Patients Zero”

Sometime in November 2019, three research staff members from the Wuhan Institute of Virology allegedly fell ill with symptoms “consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness” - as reported in retrospect in a U.S. intelligence report in May 2021. [1, 2] On June 14, 2023 the Twitter Files journalists broke the news that sources within the US government are 100% certain of the identity of the three individuals who became infected with SARS-CoV-2 in November 2019, they are Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. Ben Hu, who was Shi Zhengli's "star pupil", led the risky Gain-of-Function research on SARS-like bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, working together with Ping and Zhu. [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] It's not clear what time in November these three Wuhan lab staff fell ill, but this doesn't explain the sickness following the Wuhan military games in October 2019, nor the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies found in blood taken in Italy, September 2019.

NIH admits to funding risky coronavirus research in Wuhan

On October 20, 2021, the NIH’s principal deputy director, Lawrence A. Tabak sent letters to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce (after months of congressional demands) he acknowledged funding research that resulted in an "unexpected" coronavirus gain-of-function. [1, 2] The letter acknowledged that EcoHealth Alliance: "did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an “unexpected result” of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology." "violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report ["immediately"] if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold," [“a one log increase in growth.”] The letter stated that "The research plan was reviewed by NIH in advance of funding, and NIH determined that it did not to fit the definition of research involving enhanced pathogens of pandemic potential (ePPP)", curiously the next day, on October 21, 2022, the NIH set up a redirect from it's Gain-of-Function web page to a new ePPP page! According to HHS's P3CO framework, "Enhanced PPP do not include naturally occurring pathogens that are circulating in or have been recovered from..> READ MORE

Gain-of-Function definition quietly changed by NIH

According to web archives on October 21, 2021 the NIH set up a new web page titled "Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens" (ePPP).  The previous web page titled "Gain-of-Function Research Involving Potential Pandemic Pathogens" is now set to redirect to the new ePPP page. [1] Gain of Function definition has been replaced with "enhanced potential pandemic pathogen (ePPP) research a type of so called 'Gain-of-Function' (GOF) research". BEFORE - Image AFTER - Image The day before, on October 20, 2021, the NIH’s principal deputy director, Lawrence A. Tabak in letters to members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce acknowledged funding research that resulted in an "unexpected" gain-of-function. [2, 3]

Fauci questioned under oath about Gain of Function funding

At a US inquiry of research funding of the Wuhan Lab, Senator Rand Paul questions Dr Anthony Fauci about Gain of Function (GOF) research grant funding approved by the NIH. Fifteen days later the senate unanimously passes an amendment banning US funding of GOF research in China. Mounting evidence is pointing to the SARS-CoV-2 being of lab origin as after extensive searching no evidence can be found to support an animal origin. [1, 2]

Military World Games in Wuhan, China

The 7th Military World Games was a multi-sport event held in Wuhan, China from October 18-27, 2019, with "9,308 athletes from 109 countries competed in 329 events in 27 sports".  Wuhan was the epicentre of the “official” December 2019 start of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, though emerging data suggest it may have started earlier. Reports of military athletes falling "extremely sick" at or after the games can be found. [3, 4] Reports in USA of a strange influenza-like-illness occurred in Nov-Dec 2019.  CDC data during that time, including Jan 2020, show extremely high Influenza like illness (ILI), test come back negative for influenza.  With a supposed 2 week incubation period for SARS-CoV-2 infection, the dates line up for when the military returned from Wuhan through Washington DC. October 15, 2019 US delegate of 17 athletes arrive in Wuhan for the games. Senator Marshall asks if the military could be the source of spread into the US. [3] Could this “recovered population” account for the very high positive PCR, asymptomatic COVID-19 case numbers reported mid to late 2020 in US?  Meaning they had “dead nucleotide” in their system from past infection which the highly amplified (40Ct)  PCR tests picked up? A special investigation..> READ MORE

HHS lifts ban on Gain-of-Function research – P3CO Framework established

On January 9, 2017 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released their “Recommended Policy Guidance for Departmental Development of Review Mechanisms for Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO).” Noting "[a]doption of these recommendations will satisfy the requirements for lifting the current moratorium on certain life sciences research that could enhance a pathogen’s virulence and/or transmissibility to produce a potential pandemic pathogen (an enhanced PPP)." By the end of that year, on December 19, 2017, Francis Collins, Director of US National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it was lifting the October 16, 2014 funding moratorium [9, 10] on Gain-of-Function (GoF) research. [6]  "Dual Use" research continued because HHS adopted the pre-funding review mechanism called the Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) Framework which would be used to make funding decisions for GoF-type research. [1, 20] How this came about: Starting late 2014,  the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) who served as the "official federal advisory body on GoF research issues and is responsible for developing recommendations for the appropriate level of Federal oversight of GoF research". Which was infomed by Gryphon Scientific, who were "contracted by the NIH Office of Science Policy [OSTP]..> READ MORE

Dr Fauci defines Gain-of-Function research

While presenting at an International Consultative Workshop on "Gain-of-Function Research on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Viruses", Dr Anthony Fauci defines Gain of Function (GOF) research by specifically stating: “[w]hat historically investigators have done is to actually create gain-of-function by making mutations, passage adoption, or other genetic techniques, such as reverse genetics.” These “reverse genetics” techniques were used in the Wuhan lab for coronavirus research, using grant funds from the NIH. This 2012 definition of GOF is contrary to Dr Fauci's congressional testimony in May 11, 2021 [1].

WHO publish “first unified” global framework for investigating novel pathogens with pandemic potential

On September 4, 2024 the World Health Organization (WHO) led by their Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), who were established in late 2021, announced a publication of their new and "unified" "global framework" to "define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential". A quick word search of the document reavealed no mention of lab/laboratory "leak", "escape" or "gain of function" or "dual" use research. But there is a chapter titled "Laboratory biosafety and biosecurity element" which was developed in collaboration with the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Biosafety that covered a "possible breach of laboratory biosafety or biosecurity" that "may be caused by an accidental event or a procedural or engineering failure that results in the infection of staff working in a laboratory, when they are handling animals or collecting and handling specimens, either in a field or laboratory setting".   The framework DOES NOT cover "the deliberate or intentional release of pathogens from laboratories", nor the intentional functional manipulation of viruses "studied" in laboratories. The WHO is holding on strongly to the "zoonosis narrative " for novel viruses with pandemic potential, even though the SARS-CoV-2..> READ MORE