Newly Released Documents Show EcoHealth (And Fauci) Funding Gain-of-Function Research into Bat Viruses in Wuhan -- And In a Second Lab, Too

From Ace of Spades:

Not only did we fund "chimerical" virus engineering at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but at another Wuhan lab we haven't heard about until now -- the Wuhan Center for Animal Experiment.  

NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Intercept has obtained more than nine hundred pages of documents detailing the work of the EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. 

The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance's research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic. 

One of the grants, titled "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence," outlines an ambitious effort led by EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses. The research also involved screening people who work with live animals. 

The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment -- and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed. 

The documents raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that Daszak has called "heinous."