When ELON MUSK moves to close US international development agencies, the support of the institution for discovering new viruses in cooperation with Wuhan Institute of Virology is exposed to a fierce new spotlight.
“Do you know that USAID has funded Bioweapon research, including COVID-19, which uses taxes and kills millions?” Musk asks on a Sunday night post. I did it. This post has won 38 million views.
Did you know that USAID uses your taxes to provide Bioweapon research, including Covid-19, which killed millions of people? https://t.co/yvwyka7ifs
-ELON MUSK (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025
This claim touches on a new debate on whether the US research has contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has a long-boiled discussion on the differences in research on “BioDefense” and “Bioweapons” among scientists. I am amplified. The mask’s claim was harmful to national security, but was immediately accused by some experts, saying it was approved by others.
Musk’s reinstatement to USAID encountered resistance from parliamentary Democrats. Congress Democratic members are questioning how this affects the US soft power and whether the law allows the exclusion without legislation. (Related: Trump and the mask take the bulldozer to the “completely non -cooperative” foreign aid organization)
However, the mask utilizes research sponsored by Uhan’s USAID as evidence of the need for dramatic action.
Amazing 🤯 https://t.co/vv7pnkafyz
-ELON MUSK (@elonmusk) February 3, 2025
USAID adventure in Uhan
The USAID emerging pandemic threat program called “prediction” a government program for at least $ 210 million to 10 years. In this program, scientists sampled new viruses and monitored the risk of trendy in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Egypt. , Jordan, Court Daiboir, Liberia, Congo Republic.
According to the University of California, Davis School, this project is “the only health security effort that has been funded by the United States so far.”
The program has been dealt with millions of people at the center of concerns about the possibility of a lab accident in Wuhan, that is, EcoHealth Alliance and its subcontracting research institute, Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There is no clear link between the prediction project written on the USAID and the pandemic of COVID-19.
However, it is clear that some sequences of viruses collected by predictions for predicting the same species as SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has not been disclosed.
The prediction has funded at least 52 novels SARS -related corona virus. One of the closest known parents of Relative SARS-COV-2, a virus that causes COVID-19. The virus, Ratg13, shared 96 % of the genome with SARS-COV-2 and was discovered on a abandoned mining shaft in Yiangiang, China.
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak said a specific series of samples taken in China and Southeast Asia. You should refrain From a public database because it can bring “not welcomed precautions” to predict a partner like a USAID.
“It is very important that there is no such sequence as part of the prediction release to GenBank at this point,” Daszak was first scrutinized by the Trump administration on April 28, 2020, collaborating with Wuhan Lab. I wrote it immediately after it. “There are people who have them as part of the prediction [sic] Not very welcomed to UC Davis, prediction, and USAID. “
According to Congress surveyFor many years of virus samples stored in Wuhan Institute of Virology, you may have never released a sequence.
Password protected portal The predicted data is offline, Public website It is online.
Thousands of virus samples were left for Wuhan Institute of Virology Freezers by predictions. Includes 6,380 bat samples.
The scientists in charge of these virus samples were identified as Benfu. Hu was named in A I will quote and report anonymous source COVID-19 as “Zero patient” of pandemic. Ghost I refused the claim。 The office of the Director of the National Information Bureau Delicious reports obliged by parliament In June 2023, in the fall of 2019, some Wuhan Lab scientists became ill and showed symptoms that are not diagnosed with COVID-19. Daily Caller News Foundation reported in 2021 that his wife, a researcher in Coronavilos, died in December 2019 with a COVID-19 in December 2019.
According to the State Department cable released in 2021, Wuhan Lab had no appropriate staff to study with the largest security lab. A level that rarely provides protection against aerial viruses, such as COVID-19. ODNI acknowledged that in a 2023 reported report, the lab was suffering from the need for aging equipment, additional disinfectants, and improving ventilation systems.
USAID US contractors on prediction projects have also been criticized for bi -safety issues.
January 17, 2025, Ministry of Health and Welfare Peeled Eco Health and Daszac Five years after the conclusion that the federal government’s subsidies and the group did not appropriately supervise the research in Uhan, the government has banned the government funding for five years. There is no request from the fund provider of the National Institute of Health to obtain a lab notebook and sequence under the US government agency. According to HHS surveyDASZAK did not seriously treat these concerns until the contraindicated prospect.
On the other hand, the role of metabiota in response to an Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 Doctors were primarily criticized by World Health Organization by uncinanced doctors for appropriate disinfecting and personal deficiency, misdiagnosis and incorrect predictions on pandemic trajectory. The same year, the United States I acknowledged millions To Metaviota, including lab work in Ukraine. Former Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden company Invested $ 500,000 The same year. In 2022, Moscow authorities used this information in Propaganda to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In 2019, USAID and the Ministry of State Global Broom ProjectIncludes China -led billome projects, including work with some of the organizations with the Chinese army, including the Beijing Genomics Research Institute and the BGI. Blacklist By the Ministry of Commerce.
What if I told you … pic.twitter.com/lwoyc0ql3o
-Tiproy (@chiproytx) February 4, 2025
a State Department Cable By sincerely supporting the project, a considerable national security risk, including uncertainty about whether Chinese partners will transparent data sharing, have been recognized.
The USAID and the State Department told me that if China did new virus research without the participation of the United States, it could bring national security risks. “Draft pitch” From May 20, 2019, we will explain the outline of the project. Chinese officials were said to be the same.
“The access to the information obtained through these initiatives may be limited. Comments on the draft stated that” the same statement is inserted into Chinese documents. “
about $ 270,969 from the USAID emerging pandemic threat Before receiving the government subsidy, it may establish the basics of the project and violate ethical law.
Global Broom Project Web site Scrub from the Internet in the past eight days. The last time the Wayback machine captured the web page, January 26thThe site remained.
A while after the appearance of the COVID-19, US government support for the global billome project was depleted.
However, the USAID assigned $ 124 million to projects with different contractors, but the same goal. It is a test of new viruses in the wild and tests that bring the biggest risk to people in the laboratory. Called projects Deep VZNAfter the White House National Security Council and the Science and Technology Policy Bureau raised concerns, it was closed in 2023.
BioDefense vs. Bioweapons
In addition to the mask claim on the potential connection between the USAID and the Covid-19, his claim that the USAID “research in the funded biological era” has argued.
Blueskyisfalling’s viral doctor said it was simple to assume that the United States is not rescue biological weapons, so it’s crazy.
-Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) February 3, 2025
Experts told DCNF that the aggressive Bioweapons Work and Defense Biosciences would return to their intention.
The mission of the USAID prediction program was to “enhance global abilities to detect viruses with pandemic possibilities that can move between animals and people.”
In an interview with DCNF, Jamie Yatif, Vice President of the global biological policy of nuclear threats Initiative, said: “It is important to clearly distinguish the efforts to fuse the two -run counter, both the risk of illness that appears naturally, the work of biological weapons, and the US national security profit. “
However, even those who are critical of the mask’s claims, the 1972 treaty, which prohibits biological weapons treaties and biological weapons, is to change new viruses for the purpose of creating attack weapons and to create vaccines and vaccines. We acknowledge that there is no technical distinction from changing the virus. Treatment.
Researchers may recruit research on functional acquisition to test that viruses sampled in nature can promote pandemic. This is an experiment to make virus more fatal or transmitted.
This may conduct research on viruses with unknown characteristics of “double use.” This can be applied incorrectly for private research purposes or for military purposes.
“At first, I thought it would be a good idea to investigate the poison of the earth. It’s like looking for a new species animal,” he said, an email to DCNF, a pandemic policy doctor and an expert. Laura Khan said. “The wrong thing was when a virus scholar had an idea of manipulating viruses and seeing a more fatal or more contagious way.”
Even in front of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new virus is found and the premise of “defense” behind it in the lab Some experts were deprived of the distant。
Since the USAID did not predict the project, the ostensible premise (predicting and preventing pandemic) is now characterized to function with another name.
“There was no zero research. Richard Evrite, a professor of chemistry and chemicals at the University of Latgazs, said in an email to DCNF. It was the discovery of a new biological agent and the characteristics of the new biological weapon.
EBRIGHT and other scientists say that the benefits of function acquisition remain theoretical. Even a viral doctor Read the fee I had a hard time thinking about research to get a function Example of private profits Enhance the pathogens when pushed by a reporter.
While strongly refusing the claim that USAID has provided funds to Bioweapon’s job, YASSIF stated that more transparency would help avoid virus “weapon competition.”
“It’s a national security benefit, a global security benefit, and more transparent,” she said. “Otherwise, it can reduce the risk of misunderstanding that could lead to a dynamics of weapon races that could be unstable.”
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