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January 28, 2025
William Upton
Health
Media
Politics

Corporate News Flunky Admits Trump Was Right, Fauci Wrong on COVID-19 Origin.

Corporate media fixture Chris Cillizza is admitting President Donald J. Trump was correct about the Chinese lab origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and that former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was wrong to dismiss the possibility. In a mea culpa posted on X (formerly Twitter), Cillizza—a former CNN reporter and editor-at-large—laments that he and his corporate media colleagues were duped by Fauci and other public health officials.

“My belief back then was that if this was a debate between Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci on the origins of a pandemic-level virus, I was going to go with the guy who spent his entire career studying this stuff, not the reality TV-star-turned-president,” the former CNN reporter writes. “Except, it now appears that the reality TV-star-turned-president was right. And Anthony Fauci was wrong.”

The National Pulse previously reported the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed that Fauci was snuck into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters to influence their findings on the origins of COVID-19. Under the Biden government, intelligence community officials were dismissive of evidence the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. However, the CIA has reversed course and, over this past weekend, stated the pandemic was likely the result of the mishandling of virus samples at the Wuhan lab.

“I deferred to expert voices at a moment—May 2020—when even they were making it up on the fly,” Cillizza admits, while defending his past reporting in light of the CIA’s determination on the pandemic origins. He adds: “The other major mistake I made was that I let my belief that Trump just, well, said stuff, get in the way of the possibility that he could be right.”

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Corporate media fixture Chris Cillizza is admitting President Donald J. Trump was correct about the Chinese lab origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and that former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was wrong to dismiss the possibility. In a mea culpa posted on X (formerly Twitter), Cillizza—a former CNN reporter and editor-at-large—laments that he and his corporate media colleagues were duped by Fauci and other public health officials. show more
December 19, 2024
Health
Science

Fauci Knew COVID was Human-Adapted by February 2020, Messages Reveal.

In early 2020, both U.S. and Chinese officials were aware that the novel coronavirus was highly adapted to human transmission. Recently unveiled chat messages reveal that former Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, was informed by then-China CDC head, George Gao, of the virus’s adaptation to humans.

The conversation, occurring in early February 2020, suggests the virus had efficiently spread in humans from its inception. This adaptation of the novel coronavirus was a potential indication that it did not originate at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. However, despite this evidence, Fauci—along with other public health officials, the corporate media, and some lawmakers—dismissed theories that the virus could have resulted from gain-of-function research and a subsequent escape event at the Wuhan lab.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released these WeChat messages, obtained via Ping Chen, Fauci’s representative in Beijing at that time. A subsequent message from Chen to Gao recalled the discussion during the pandemic’s initial phase, where Gao observed the virus’s adaptation. The implications of this information were publicly discussed months later by molecular biologist Alina Chan, sparking debate over the virus’s origins.

The virus’s characterization as human-adapted was not disclosed to the public until May 2020. A preprint then suggested that SARS-CoV-2 might have circulated undetected or been adapted in a laboratory through serial passage. This theory faced criticism, notably from authors of a March 2020 Nature Medicine paper, who contended the virus evolved naturally. These authors, including Eddie Holmes, were aware of the virus’s peculiar adaptation, expressing private doubts about their public stance.

Fauci, who is publicly skeptical of a lab origin and critical of Chan, has maintained that the virus’s evolution strongly suggests a natural origin.

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In early 2020, both U.S. and Chinese officials were aware that the novel coronavirus was highly adapted to human transmission. Recently unveiled chat messages reveal that former Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, was informed by then-China CDC head, George Gao, of the virus's adaptation to humans. show more
November 26, 2024
William Upton
Health
Politics

GOTCHA: Top NIH Scientist Admits Fauci Likely Funded Wuhan Lab, Questions Vaccine Efficacy.

A top data scientist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) admits that most of the government’s health initiatives surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic were “completely made up.” Raja Cholan, Chief of the Health Data Standards Branch at the U.S. National Library of Medicine for the NIH, was caught on an undercover video by investigative journalist James O’Keefe acknowledging the likelihood that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan lab and expressing reservations regarding the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines produced in response to the pandemic.

FAUCI & WUHAN.

Discussing the NIH with an undercover reporter, Cholan admits the agency likely funded COVID research at the Wuhan lab, suggesting the U.S. government bears some degree of responsibility for the pandemic. “They [referring to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)] might have funded Wuhan—a lab in Wuhan, China—to, like, make COVID,” he says. The NIH data chief also alleges Dr. Anthony Fauci himself may have been involved, stating: “That’s where Fauci was the director. Like, they might have funded some labs to do vaccine studies and disease, like, to prepare for an outbreak.”

VACCINE EFFICACY.

Additionally, Cholan openly admits that the vaccines meant to prevent COVID-19 infections likely do not work as intended. “I haven’t gotten the latest COVID shots, and I’m not going to… there’s mixed evidence about if it really does anything,” Cholan tells the undercover reporter. He continues, “I don’t even know if these vaccines stop you from getting COVID,” before reconsidering his response and adding bluntly: “They don’t.”

Cholan says one of his biggest concerns regarding the COVID-19 vaccines was the approval process. “The measles vaccine requires several rounds of approval, but the COVID-19 vaccines were accelerated through the approvals for all of us to get our boosters,” he says, adding: “Pfizer and Moderna are just getting a bunch of money from it.”

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A top data scientist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) admits that most of the government's health initiatives surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic were "completely made up." Raja Cholan, Chief of the Health Data Standards Branch at the U.S. National Library of Medicine for the NIH, was caught on an undercover video by investigative journalist James O'Keefe acknowledging the likelihood that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan lab and expressing reservations regarding the efficacy of the mRNA vaccines produced in response to the pandemic. show more
September 6, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Health
Science

‘Highly Evolved’ Polio Strain Suspect as Chinese Lab Leak.

A study released by researchers at France‘s Pasteur Institute suggests that a highly evolved polio strain, which infected a boy in China’s Anhui province, closely matches a variant stored at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The strain, WIV14, is 99 percent similar to the Saukett A strain used in vaccine production and lab settings. This similarity has led some experts to question whether the strain might have leaked from the WIV lab.

The study points to two possibilities for the origins of WIV14: the strain could have emerged from a natural reservoir or a lab. According to Dr. Maël Bessaud, who led the research, it is also possible that WIV14 originated at the WIV itself, or from a facility handling polio.

The research adds to ongoing concerns over lab safety protocols, particularly at the WIV, which has faced scrutiny for its alleged role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dangerous virus research in China is receiving funding from U.S. taxpayers, with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) helping to fund a project enhancing the virulence of bird flu, for instance.

Peter Daszak, the Anthony Fauci-linked researcher whose EcoHealth Alliance group is accused of complicity in a Wuhan lab leak, also continued to receive funding to work with exotic viruses sourced from bats, pangolins, and other animals post-pandemic.

Following years of reporting on EcoHealth Alliance by The National Pulse, Daszak was debarred from receiving public funding by the U.S. government this year. Rep. Brad Wenstrup’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic had argued Daszak was non-compliant with National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant terms and disregarding the risks associated with so-called gain-of-function research.

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A study released by researchers at France's Pasteur Institute suggests that a highly evolved polio strain, which infected a boy in China's Anhui province, closely matches a variant stored at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The strain, WIV14, is 99 percent similar to the Saukett A strain used in vaccine production and lab settings. This similarity has led some experts to question whether the strain might have leaked from the WIV lab. show more
May 17, 2024
Health

Sen. Roger Marshall Demands Pentagon Probe ALL Tax-Funded Gain-of-Function Research in China.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Friday requested Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch to scrutinize all U.S. taxpayer-funded gain-of-function research in China, as well as any undisclosed or unpublished collections of pathogens and biospecimens that might be key in determining the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plea serves to broaden an existing investigation into over $50 million in Pentagon grants received by Chinese institutions for pandemic pathogens research from 2014 to 2023.

Marshall’s office had also detected a large array of lab samples that the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases procured from Chinese entities between October 2014 and March 2020. These samples, which include potentially fatal pathogens like Ebola and Marburg virus, were initially obtained through an agreement with the University of California, Davis, and EcoHealth Alliance.

These institutions used millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to support China’s pandemic pathogen collection and research at locations like the now-debarred Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan University, and the Chinese Academies of Science Institute of Microbiology. Information about the purchased biospecimens could contain “forensic clues” to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to Marshall.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and the now-former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) had initially asked the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General in January 2022 to conduct an extensive audit of Chinese pandemic pathogen research grants.

National Institutes of Health’s principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted on Thursday that U.S. taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. EcoHealth Alliance’s president Dr. Peter Daszak claimed that he was unaware of the number and variety of viral sequences stored at the Wuhan lab despite approving more than $500,000 in US funding for bats’ novel coronaviruses experiments there.

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Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on Friday requested Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch to scrutinize all U.S. taxpayer-funded gain-of-function research in China, as well as any undisclosed or unpublished collections of pathogens and biospecimens that might be key in determining the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plea serves to broaden an existing investigation into over $50 million in Pentagon grants received by Chinese institutions for pandemic pathogens research from 2014 to 2023. show more
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May 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Health

WATCH: NIH Director Contradicts Fauci, Confirms They DID Fund Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab.

Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has confirmed that the NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance group.

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic asked Tabak directly if NIH had funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab through EcoHealth. “It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research. If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did,” Tabak confirmed.

“Because… but this is research, the generic term, this research that goes on in many, many labs around the country, it is not regulated, and the reason it’s not regulated is it poses no threat or harm to anybody,” he added, stumbling over his words.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who formerly led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and served as Chief Medical Advisor to the President under Joe Biden until the end of 2022, told Congress in 2021 that NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

A LONG HISTORY. 

Many politicians and public health officials, including Fauci, have long dismissed evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology caused the coronavirus pandemic through a lab leak. They also downplayed the idea the Wuhan virus could have been created through gain-of-function research.

It is now accepted that a lab leak was likely the origin of COVID-19. It appears this was dismissed largely to undermine then-President Donald Trump, who spoke out on the likelihood of a lab leak early on.

EcoHealth, first exposed by The National Pulse in 2020, has continued to receive money to experiment with exotic bat viruses in Asia. Emails from Daszak suggest he still has hundreds if not thousands of coronavirus samples “in freezers in Wuhan.”

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s investigation finally resulted in the U.S. government announcing EcoHealth funding would be suspended, and the group proposed for debarment on Wednesday.

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Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has confirmed that the NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance group. show more
April 10, 2024
Corruption
Health
Politics

Rand Paul: ‘Smoking Gun’ Ties Fauci to Wuhan Lab Creation of COVID.

Sen. Rand Paul says a 2018 grant proposal seeking funding to experiment with a COVID-19-type virus is the “smoking gun” linking Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following recent disclosures by a Marine Corps whistleblower, Senator Paul flagged a 2018 grant proposal linked to 15 federal agencies that could have enabled the Wuhan Institute to develop a COVID-19-like virus.

“We only found out about this from a whistleblower — nobody else in government ever informed us, including Anthony Fauci,” Paul said. He alleges the “smoking gun” ties him and the NIH to the 2018 grant proposal, leading to the possibility that NIH and NIAID were part of research that could have potentially resulted in the COVID-19 virus.

The grant proposal, labeled “DEFUSE Project,” was submitted to the Department of Defense’s research agency, DARPA, and reportedly incorporated NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, yielding suspicions of Fauci’s knowledge and involvement. Paul has called for more information from each agency involved by April 23.

The grant proposal’s existence suggests Fauci may have lied directly to Congress. “Sen. Paul, I have never lied before Congress and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function,” Fauci said during a 2021 Senate hearing. “Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly.”

While the DEFUSE project was not federally funded, according to Paul, Fauci and others were allegedly aware of Wuhan lab’s continuance in related microbial research. This brings into sharper focus the early insinuations of COVID-19 being a laboratory leak, and the subsequent dismissal of the hypothesis by prominent voices like Fauci, who derided it as a conspiracy theory.

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Sen. Rand Paul says a 2018 grant proposal seeking funding to experiment with a COVID-19-type virus is the "smoking gun" linking Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health to the COVID-19 pandemic. show more
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January 11, 2024
News

Fauci Admits Lab Leak Not Conspiracy Theory, Social Distancing Guidelines Not Based In Science.

Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is reportedly distancing himself from previous COVID-19 policies and positions he once advocated and has admitted the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins is not a conspiracy theory, according to Republicans present during Fauci’s testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week.

Fauci acknowledged during his testimony that the COVID lab-leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory and also revealed that the 6-feet-apart social distancing recommendation was likely not based on any real data and “just sort of appeared.” As the official X account for the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic pointed out, Fauci was involved heavily in the “Proximal Origin” paper that sought to disprove the lab-leak hypothesis and portray it as an outlandish conspiracy theory.

Fauci, who is reported to have answered “I do not recall” to over 100 questions, also expressed skepticism that school shutdowns negatively impact student learning, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. “He says he’s still not convinced that there was learning loss — that in his view, that’s still really open for discussion,” Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), who sits on the panel, said in an interview with The New York Post.

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Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is reportedly distancing himself from previous COVID-19 policies and positions he once advocated and has admitted the lab-leak theory of COVID-19's origins is not a conspiracy theory, according to Republicans present during Fauci's testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week. show more
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January 3, 2024
Health
NatSec
Science

More Evidence Emerges for COVID Lab-Leak Theory.

A leaked document coauthored by American and Chinese scientists offers new evidence supporting the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins. The document details a 2018 grant proposal titled Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and EcoHealth Alliance, an American organization. The proposal suggested engineering high-risk coronaviruses by synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the very feature that made SARS-CoV-2 the most significant pandemic event in a century.

The project, initially planned for a high-containment BSL-3 lab, would be transferred to a BSL-2 lab at WIV with less stringent safety precautions, explained Peter Daszak, CEO of EcoHealth. Daszak’s involvement with Antony Fauci, the Wuhan Lab, and Chinese Communist scientists was first exposed by The National Pulse in 2021.

According to investigative journalist Emily Kopp from U.S. Right to Know, the scientists planned to study more lethal viruses after completing the coronavirus research.

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the intended funder for Project DEFUSE, was not informed of WIV’s involvement. This was allegedly done to skirt national security concerns tied to high-level biosecurity work in China. Kopp also revealed plans to use less regulated SARS-related coronavirus research as a foundation to study more deadly viruses like Ebola, Marburg, Hendra and Nipah. Despite being rejected for funding by DARPA, Daszak has likely completed some of the proposed work with different funding sources. His organization, EcoHealth Alliance, received at least $8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) between 2014 and 2021.

Daszak has publicly denied the lab-leak theory. However, documents leaked from Project DEFUSE contradict his denial, showing evidence of high-risk coronavirus research. Daszak’s organization is under federal investigation following claims of double-billing U.S. taxpayers for dangerous coronavirus research in China.

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A leaked document coauthored by American and Chinese scientists offers new evidence supporting the lab-leak theory of COVID-19's origins. The document details a 2018 grant proposal titled Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and EcoHealth Alliance, an American organization. The proposal suggested engineering high-risk coronaviruses by synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the very feature that made SARS-CoV-2 the most significant pandemic event in a century. show more
September 26, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Health
News

Wuhan ‘Bat Lady’ Says Another Pandemic ‘Almost Certain’.

Wuhan Institute of Virology scientist Shi Zhengli has published a paper assessing 40 strains of coronavirus and estimating half of them are “highly risky” to humans, with nine known to have crossed from one species to another and six known to have already infected people.

“It is almost certain that there will be future disease emergence and it is highly likely a [coronavirus] disease again,” wrote the scientist, dubbed the ‘bat woman’ or ‘bat lady’ for her work on coronavirus strains in bats.

Bats were identified as one vector for a new coronavirus to jump to humans, along with rodents, pigs, pangolins, camels, and civets.

While it was initially suggested that bat soup or infected pangolin meat at a Wuhan wet market was the original source of the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea it actually leaked from the Wuhan lab, popularized by The National Pulse, is increasingly gaining traction after years of resistance.

Shi is not the first person to warn another pandemic may be around the corner, with the British government also having put the chances of a “catastrophic” disease outbreak over the next five years at one in four – causing some to fear the authorities are priming people to get ready for another round of lockdowns and state-backed vaccination drives.

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Wuhan Institute of Virology scientist Shi Zhengli has published a paper assessing 40 strains of coronavirus and estimating half of them are "highly risky" to humans, with nine known to have crossed from one species to another and six known to have already infected people. show more