Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Is the National Institutes of Health this tone-deaf or playing the long game?
Like Covid, Peter Daszak won’t go away.
For two years, Daszak, a British zoologist in New York, has faced hard questions about his relationship with a Chinese laboratory experimenting on bat coronaviruses – and his efforts to stop anyone from investigating if Sars-Cov-2 leaked from that lab.
After repeated “misstatements” by Daszak on his relationship with the Chinese and his work on coronaviruses, he has become increasingly radioactive.
Yet less than two weeks ago, the National Institutes of Health awarded Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, his nonprofit, a new $3.3 million, five-year grant for research on coronaviruses.
The grant covers Southeast Asian countries. But its specifics are otherwise very similar to EcoHealth’s previous work in China – work at the heart of the controversy around the origins of Sars-Cov-2.
