In the year that millions of people around the world died from a virus thought to have been created at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese scientists in Beijing began working on a more lethal coronavirus variant, GX_P2V, that was 100% fatal in humanized mice and caused primarily late-stage brain infections. Although not formally linked, the work refers to parallel research conducted by Dr. Shi Zhengli, a scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In March, Chinese researchers from Hebei Medical University Revealed They created a mutant strain of the vesicular stomatitis virus known to infect cattle by injecting it with Ebola proteins. Hamster subjects infected with the recombinant virus suffered weight loss, eye ulcers, inflammation, and multiple organ failure, and all subsequently died.
Apparently the Pentagon has no idea to what extent it has been funding such potentially catastrophic testing in Communist China.
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General release A partially redacted report was released Tuesday detailing the results of an effort by the Defense Department to track funds invested in helping the Chinese Communist Party strengthen its deadly pathogens.
The report clarifies that it is referring to gain-of-function experiments, The definition has been published The journal Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology writes, “The term ‘gain-of-function’ means ‘enhancing function through genetic manipulation’ or ‘adding new function,’ and applies to many studies involving genetic modification or engineering.”
Specifically, the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General sought to track the amount of federal funds the Department of Defense provided directly or indirectly for the following purposes:
- the communist regime itself;
- the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other organizations administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences;
- EcoHealth Alliance, the scandal-plagued and disbarred company of Peter Daszak, whose capability acquisition subcontractors were among the companies with potential patient zero.
- China Academy of Military Medical Sciences; and
- Other related laboratories in Asian countries.
Of particular concern is whether and where the funds were spent on “research or experimentation that may lead to the development of coronavirus, influenza, Nipah virus, Ebola virus, or other pathogens with the potential to cause a pandemic, or chimeric versions of such viruses or pathogens.”
The report’s conclusions were reprehensible.
The Pentagon admitted it had no idea to what extent it had funded the creation of a deadly virus in a country it considered an “enemy.”Top Pace Challenge“—that country Overall Biorisk Management Score Not very good.
The report begins by saying Army officials identified 12 relevant research programs and noted that “for seven grants, the primary grantee provided funding to subgrantees or contract research organizations in China or other foreign countries for research on the potential enhancement of pathogens that could cause a pandemic.”
The Office of Inspector General could also explain more than $54 million provided to EcoHealth Alliance for 13 projects carried out between 2014 and 2023, but suggested that this funding was never provided to China or its affiliates for gain-of-function research.
The report described just the tip of the Pentagon’s funding iceberg, noting that what lies beneath is entirely “unknown.”
Why isn’t the answer to this question “zero dollars”?
The Office of Inspector General cited “significant challenges in searching for grants” due to “limitations in the DoD systems used to track contracts and grants” and concluded that “the total amount of DoD funds provided to Chinese laboratories and other foreign countries for research on enhancing pathogens that could cause pandemics is unknown.”
When it came to funding for China’s capability acquisition experiments, the report noted, the Defense Department did not use “budget line items or other consistent metrics, such as assistant list codes, that would allow for easy searching or review of databases of grants, contracts, and other business agreements” and did not track “funding at the level of detail” needed to make accurate determinations.
Apparently, the Government Accountability Office came to a similar conclusion in its 2022 report.
Equally troubling is that the Office of Inspector General acknowledged that it is “impossible to identify a single, comprehensive source of all pathogens with pandemic potential.” In other words, the Department of Defense does not appear to have a readily available, authoritative list detailing how much of China’s funding has been spent on the creation of deadly diseases.
Despite acknowledging that the Pentagon does not track spending on manufacturing deadly viruses in China, Pentagon officials assured the Office of the Inspector General that “no DoD organization actively participated in or knowingly funded research or experimentation that could lead to the enhancement of pathogens with the potential to cause a pandemic between 2014 and 2023.”
The report was not well received.
Dr. Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University I have written“Your tax money is on fire.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist at Stanford University Tweeted“Biden’s Defense Department doesn’t know how much it gave to Chinese labs to ‘enhance’ pathogens. Why can’t the answer to this question be ‘zero dollars’?”
“Deadly cover-up. Deadly incompetence.” I have written Matthew Peterson, editor in chief of The Blaze News. “What’s the difference? But you could also interpret this ‘we don’t know’ as meaning that we (you) paid for the creation of the coronavirus.”
Blaze News Columnist Orlon McIntyre Responded“US government agencies can track and censor social media posts about the pandemic, but they cannot track how much it costs to create the pandemic.”
“It wasn’t a pangolin.” I have written “It was the Pentagon,” said Mike Bentz, executive director of the Foundation for Online Freedom.
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