Sen. Joni Ernst is calling out the Biden administration for continued funding of “pathogens of pandemic potential” research in Guinea. Grants for the project have gone to the EcoHealth Alliance, which Ernst says “can’t be trusted—with dollars or dangerous diseases—after they funneled taxpayer dollars to fund Chinese-run risky research in Wuhan.”
Congress approved Ernst’s proposal to audit “defense dollars flowing to and through EcoHealth to pay for batty experiments in China or anywhere else.” Despite that provision, Ernst contends, “more funds have already found their way to EcoHealth Alliance. We must stop this before they are used to make the world a less safe place.”
A prime figure in that quest is Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The NIAID boss, a government bureaucrat since 1968, used the EcoHealth Alliance to channel taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for dangerous gain-of-function research. Dr. Fauci also has connections to the continuing grants now under fire from Sen. Ernst.
In September of 2021, the Department of Defense (DOD) gave Georgetown University a three-year grant of $2.8 million for reducing the threat of “high-risk pathogens” in Guinea. As........