The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has debarred the president of EcoHealth Alliance, which was coordinating with Dr. Anthony Fauci to funnel gain-of-function virus research money to a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, and was chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.
After an eight-month investigation, the agency cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years, based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Debarment is a legal action that prevents a person or entity from working with the government.
In a new letter, HHS states “that a period of debarment for Dr. Daszak is necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests.” This letter also confirms that EcoHealth terminated Daszak’s employment effective Jan. 6, 2025.
EcoHealth and Daszak facilitated research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight and willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health grant. Gain-of-function research enables a pandemic-potential pathogen to replicate more quickly and it poses a grave threat to humanity or animals.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer issued the following statement in response to the formal debarment:
“Justice for the American people was served today. Bad actor EcoHealth Alliance and its corrupt former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, were formally debarred by HHS for using taxpayer funds to facilitate dangerous gain-of-function research in China. Today’s decision is not only a victory for the U.S. taxpayer, but also for American national security and the safety of citizens worldwide.
“In May 2024, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup released evidence that EcoHealth repeatedly violated the terms of its NIH grant. EcoHealth routinely ignored government oversight requests, failed to report dangerous gain-of-function experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and produced a required research report two years late. HHS cited all of these discoveries as key reasons for formally debarring EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak. Given that a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19, EcoHealth and its former President should never again receive a single cent from the U.S. taxpayer.”
According to Must Read Alaska health writer Linda Boyle, these the key takeaways from the hearing last May with Fauci, according to the House Oversight Committee’s own summary:
- Dr. Fauci showed no remorse for the millions of lives affected by his divisive rhetoric and his unscientific policies. He did not apologize to the thousands of Americans who lost their jobs because they refused the novel vaccine, nor did he apologize to children experiencing severe learning loss as a result of actions he promoted.
- Dr. Fauci confirmed that his Senior Advisor — Dr. David Morens — violated official NIH policies and potentially broke federal law. Evidence obtained by the Select Subcommittee suggests that Dr. Morens deliberately obstructed the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19, unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, and shared nonpublic information about National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant processes with his “best-friend” EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. (EcoHealth) President Dr. Peter Daszak.
- Dr. Fauci maintained his misleading claim that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. In 2021, he told Sen. Rand Paul that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” During yesterday’s hearing, Dr. Fauci doubled down on his previous claim by stating “the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Notably, former Acting NIH Director Dr. Lawrence Tabak told the Select Subcommittee recently that the NIH did, in fact, fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
- Dr. Fauci agreed with the Select Subcommittee that EcoHealth and its president, Dr. Peter Daszak, should never again receive a single cent from the U.S. taxpayer. Two weeks after the Select Subcommittee released evidence of EcoHealth’s contempt for the American people, its flagrant disregard for the risks associated with gain-of-function research, and its willful violation of the terms of its NIH grant, the Department of Health and Human Services commenced formal debarment proceedings against the organization and its president.
- Dr. Fauci corrected his previous testimony that his staff did not possess conflicts of interest. During his transcribed interview he claimed, “the only people that I am involved with is my own staff, who we’ve mentioned many times in this discussion, who don’t have a conflict of interest.” During yesterday’s hearing, he changed his tune testifying that Dr. Morens “definitely had a conflict of interest.”
- Dr. Fauci publicly acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis was possible and not a conspiracy theory. Yesterday, he told Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that he falsely claimed that he has kept an “open mind” about the origins of the pandemic. This comes nearly four years after prompting the publication of the now infamous “Proximal Origin” paper that attempted to vilify and disprove the lab leak hypothesis.
- Read the letter from HHS to Dr. Peter Daszak here.
- Read the letter from HHS to EcoHealth Alliance Inc. here.
- Read HHS’s Action Referral Memorandum for Dr. Peter Daszak here.
- Read HHS’s Action Referral Memorandum for EcoHealth Alliance Inc. here.
I’m guessing that there were multiple co-conspirators involved and hopefully, with a new Administration, that further indictments and prosecutions will follow.
Here’s a great documentary for further edification:
‘https://tuckercarlson.com/thank-you-dr-fauci
Nope!
Pardoned. Now get on to running the country down and forget about vengeance
Don’t worry, he can’t plead the 5th and will be publicly shamed. Too bad his pardon won’t exempt him from Nuremberg 2.0
Vengeance seemed perfectly OK with you under Biden, but now it is verboten… weird…
They are scrambling to do some serious CYA. I hope they are all prosecuted starting with Fauci.
Like… four years too late.
Gain of function research was banned by federal law when Fauci authorized funding at the Wuhan Lab, among other places as well – he should be prosecuted for this heinous crime that led to Covid 19!
I want Trump and Congress to pass legislation that will allow China to be sued for releasing this engineered virus on the world. Just as state sponsors of terror (Iran) can be sued for their evil acts, China needs to pay dearly for the deaths of over one million Americans. No enemy has ever killed this many Americans, nor has anything like this ever not been responded to by our government.
After a trial, China could be held liable for trillions in damages. Pain and suffering, lost income, death, injury, etc.
Democrats were too weak and pathetic to stand up for America. Republicans now need to show us they can lead, and not be a bunch of cowards like the Democrats.
Ah, just take the settlement out of the half trillion we owe them.
Don’t worry that is about to all.change with Tariffs
We barely cover interest.
M, you cannot sue China for research they conducted and were paid to do under contract for the US initiated gain of function research.
It was an illegal and immoral American bio weapon research project, commenced in Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, then contracted to the PRC through EcoHealth as an intermediary and for plausible deniabilityq during the Obama administration.
You do bring up an excellent consideration that every other country on earth could sue both the US and China for the consequences of our illegal research and their ineptitude in implementing it.
Using this same logic Russia should additionally sue the US for operating illegal bio weapon labs near their borders in what was the modern construct of Ukraine.
There is also a pressing basis for a massive class action suit against our government for the forced use of fake “vaccines” against our citizens, which killed and continues to kill and maim far more Americans than the “covid” virus ever did.
Brian, your tin foil hat is on a bit too tight today.
Your rhetoric has zero credibility because you priase a state sponsor of terror- Putin- while continually attacking the United States.
Whuan Inst. of Virology is a Chinese Govt. controlled institution. When the virus leaked, the Chinese government tried to cover it up- and by doing so- allowed the virus to spread and become a vast, global killer. The cover up is all on China.
The research was being done under contract in China, it was an American initiated bio weapon research project.
No one in the public knows if it was an accidental “leak”,
activities this serious are known, approved and monitored by the top national security agencies in both countries.
Highest Paid Federal Employee In 2020:
Edward Garay, VHA, Medical Officer – $464,227. Anthony Fauci, NIH, Medical Officer – $434,312. Gary Gibbons, NIH, Medical Officer – $422,339. Hubert Kim, VHA, Medical Officer – $420,402.
Fauci will go down in medical history as the doc who put millions into their graves as he violated the Hippocratic Oath.
No he won’t. The virus killed millions worldwide. Fixed it.
No history will not be kind to FJB and Fauci. We all know you live in a drug induced fantasy world.
Not fantasy. I take the best.
Not really.
The half-assed treatment guidance Fauci pushed for killed more people than the virus did.
And, the roadblocks Fauci put in place preventing doctors from prescribing drugs off label prevented millions from recovering without hospitalization.
Finally, the virus would never have been weaponized if Fauci’s department did not fund it.
The “gain-of-function experiments” outsourced under contract to the Wuhan, and other laboratories overseas was specific for bio weapon research. This US government initiated project to weaponize a virus in the Corona family was outsourced outside of territory under US jurisdiction because it is internationally illegal to research, design and build bio weapons of mass destruction.
Our government also outsourced bio, chemical and genetic weapon research to the Kiev regime, which we installed to militarize the Ukraine, and was ongoing in 46 laboratories when the RF commenced the SMO to deal with the aggressive threat against their national security the massive military we built there posed.
The ongoing research they discovered is documented, but kept under wraps by our media here at home.
The seriousness of these activities our government engages in cannot be exaggerated. Our country can accurately be described as a terrorist state. Our leadership used an unfounded accusation of possessing weapons of mass destruction to invade the nation of Iraq.
Simply cutting off the cash flow to the EcoHealth Alliance and sweeping the extent of the bio weapon issues we have under the rug is in no way sufficient to “fix” this problem.
In fact it’s pathetic that’s all the response has been to date.
That Gain of Function Research started at UNC Chapel Hill in April of 2001. (Under Obama). NIH Grant GM63228 funds Ralph Baric et al at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to do Chimera research to transform the original SARS Coronavirus which was pathogenic only to animals, existing in nature as a pathogen for dogs and rabbits, etc. Dr. Fauci, Ralph Baric & Dr. Peter Daszak were all involved in the research in NC. Even Obama deemed the research too dangerous to be kept in the USA. So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Wuhan, China. Then they set all all those labs in Ukraine to continue their bio weapon research and development. It’s not just EcoHealth Alliance. Now they Got BARDA. Look it up and see who else they are partnering with. Lots of smiling Globalists just working on the next Plandemic, nothing to see here. Russia has taken out most of the Labs already but these guys are like Cockroaches. Look up Dr. David Martin. He’s been warning about Fauci and the band for years.
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
Just ask all the victims of the C virus AND all the victims of the response by governments worldwide (disagreeing politics will argue ad nauseum which caused more damage, making it all the more likely that this particular history WILL unfortunately repeat itself).
What? You are suggesting that EcoHealth Alliance was illegally involved in viral gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China?
CONSPIRACY THEORIST!!!!
The conspiracy folks are winning something like 43-0.
Justice will only be served when Daszak no longer has a pulse
First defunding and debarring. The investigation has already been done. Next: speedy trial and jail for Fauci and Daszak. And anyone else who helped facilitate this farce. Two weeks to flatten the curve didn’t. Lockdowns. Forced masking. Forced vaccination. Hearing Biden and the NIH claim that this was a pandemic of the unvaccinated. This was a sham and a massive public disinformation campaign. Bureaucrats must held to account. This must never happen again.
Long overdue. If Grandpa Bloodstains doesn’t pardon him, I hope the DOJ goes after him.
Fauci is pure evil.
Biden pissed in Trump’s post toasties. Pardoned!
Whitewash. While any accountability is welcome, this is a farcical cover-up. But this genie will not be put back in its bottle – both the Chinese and US now know how to do gain-of-function genetic work on viruses, and are ignoring international law on bioweapons. What will be unleashed in the next world war is unspeakable terror.
How about a permanent debarment for liar Fauci (albeit largely symbolic)? How about he be charged with the many deaths that came from his gain of function research? This man makes me sick.
Soggy Bottom Biden will preemptively pardon the evil Dr. Fauci as one of his last acts as president.
So, now we have confirmation that Fauci orchestrated the sham Covid crap that was foisted on us in order to rig the 2020 election. Treason used to be punishable by firing squad.
You’re dreaming. Shrooms?
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