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Key public records and reporting show the U.S. government — through grants to EcoHealth Alliance and collaborations involving U.S. scientists — funded coronavirus research that included bat-to-human r...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, as director of NIAID and a senior U.S. public health official during the Obama administration, did not personally visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 as some viral images ...
The record shows U.S. federal agencies began routing research funding to EcoHealth Alliance that ultimately supported collaborations with Wuhan institutions in 2014—squarely during the Obama administr...
Congressional committees—principally the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Oversight Committee—have released a mix of subpoenaed internal emails (notably from longtim...
Documents and reporting show the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIAID provided funding to EcoHealth Alliance, which subcontracted work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on bat corona...
NIH/NIAID funded EcoHealth Alliance grants that supported collaborative work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; NIH later acknowledged at least one experiment funded through that grant produced a bat...
No congressional committee or official inquiry in the supplied reporting has concluded that Dr. Anthony Fauci intentionally misled the public; the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has compiled a mix of documentary references, media reports, grant records, emails cited by others, and witness statements to support his accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci; h...
Major origin probes have been dogged by documented conflict-of-interest concerns: high-profile scientists with ties to EcoHealth Alliance prompted the collapse or reshuffle of at least one internation...
DRASTIC's public release of internal research proposals, lab records and related files—most prominently the EcoHealth Alliance "DEFUSE" DARPA proposal and associated WIV-linked materials—forced scient...
Ralph Baric, a prominent coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, has a documented history of scientific collaboration and communication with Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) scien...
Between 2014 and 2019, EcoHealth Alliance was the recipient of multiple U.S. federal research awards; public reporting and government audits identify a major NIAID/NIH award launched in 2014 often rep...
The United States did provide federal grant money that flowed to organizations and projects that partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), including subgrants routed through U.S. nonprofit...
U.S.-based scientists led by Ralph Baric collaborated with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers including Shi Zhengli on published coronavirus experiments before the COVID-19 pandemic, and U.S. fed...
No credible, contemporaneous evidence in the supplied reporting shows that the United States “created” SARS‑CoV‑2; intelligence and scientific reviews have left the virus’s origins unresolved and cont...
The shorthand claim "Fauci knew" refers to multiple contested assertions: that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew the U.S. funded coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), that he knew such work ...
UNC–Chapel Hill scientist Ralph Baric collaborated on published coronavirus research with Wuhan Institute of Virology colleagues, including work showing bat SARS‑related viruses could infect human cel...
Multiple outlets and critics accuse Dr. Anthony Fauci of specific falsehoods during the COVID-19 pandemic—most commonly claims about masks, herd immunity thresholds, and NIH funding of Wuhan research—...
Congressional hearings and related committee reports produced a large volume of documents and claims but—according to available reporting—no single smoking‑gun, direct piece of scientific evidence pro...
Republican criticisms of Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 role center on three recurring charges: that he supported or concealed risky research funding (notably “gain‑of‑function” ties to Wuhan), that he push...