By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-19 04:00:56 | Updated at 2025-01-19 07:24:20
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BREAKING: HHS Formally Debars EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Peter Daszak After COVID Select Reveals Pandemic-Era Wrongdoing
House Committee on Oversight ^ | 01/18/2025
Posted on 01/18/2025 7:50:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — Today, after an eight-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. (EcoHealth) and its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. 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 Dr. Daszak’s employment effective January 6, 2025. EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight and willingly violated multiple requirements of its multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) 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.”
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.
Read More:
Hearing Wrap Up: EcoHealth Alliance Should be Criminally Investigated, Formally Debarred
BREAKING: HHS to Debar Dr. Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; ecohealth; pandemic; peterdaszak
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1 posted on 01/18/2025 7:50:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
HHS Memo notes that EcoHealth Alliance terminated Peter Daszak a week ago. 
"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," Comer continued.
As journalist Paul Thacker noted in June, the NIH lied about EcoHealth's gain-of-function research, feeding lies to reporters, while lying to Congress. Meanwhile, former NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci 'prompted' the fabrication of a paper by a cadre of scientists aimed at disproving the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
According to US Right to Know, emails obtained in 2020 revealed that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” was organized by employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The emails obtained via public records requests show that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak drafted the Lancet statement, and that he intended it to “not be identifiable as coming from any one organization or person” but rather to be seen as “simply a letter from leading scientists”.
To review;
The US was doing risky gain-of-function research on US soil until 2014, when the Obama administration banned it. Four months before the ban, Dr. Fauci offshored it to Wuhan, China through New York nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance.
After Sars-CoV-2 broke out down the street from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Fauci engaged in a massive campaign to deny the possibility of a lab-leak from the lab he funded, and instead pin the blame on a yet-to-be discovered zoonotic intermediary species.
And if you'd like to dig even deeper, this is perhaps the best, most comprehensive summary of the "proximal origin" timeline.
In light of HHS debarring Peter Daszak & EcoHealth Alliance firing him, a look back at @sciencemagazine carrying his H2O.
After National Academy flubbed an investigation of Daszak, they leaked it to Jon Cohen who attacked Congress for a "frivolous and political" request. pic.twitter.com/2jbPcoZ8Zv
2 posted on 01/18/2025 7:52:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
NGOs: paid by the government to do things it would be illegal for the government to do itself.
3 posted on 01/18/2025 7:57:00 PM PST by KarlInOhio (“Forget it, Jake. It’s California.”)
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