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The US Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. and its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years due to evidence uncovered by the US Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The debarment comes after an eight-month investigation. Dr. Daszak’s employment with EcoHealth Alliance was terminated from EcoHealth Alliance on 6 January 2025.
Dr. Daszak was the Project Director/Principal Investigator for a grant that involved gain-of-function research, which was initially subject to a funding pause but was later allowed to continue by the NIAID. It has long been believed that this gain-of-function research led to the development of the SARS-CoV-2 virus bioweapon.
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HHS Formally Debars EcoHealth Alliance, President Peter Daszak Fired
By John Leake as published by Courageous Discourse on 19 January 2025
HHS Action Referral Memo announces that “Dr. Daszak lacks the present responsibility to participate in United States Federal Government procurement and non-procurement programmes.”
On January 17, 2025 – just three days before President Trump is to be sworn in – Congress issued a press release with the following statement:
Today, after an eight-month investigation, the US 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.
As far as I can tell, the New York Times did not report this story, though the New York Post did.
More interesting than the superficial news reporting is the HHS Action Referral Memorandum recommending that Dr. Peter Daszak be barred from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and non-procurement programmes.
The Memorandum also states:
Dr. Peter Daszak was the President and Chief Executive Officer of EHA [EcoHealth Alliance] from 2009 until his termination, effective 6 January 2025. Dr. Daszak was the Project Director (PD)/Principal Investigator (PI) for Grant Number 1R01AI110964-01.
I am not sure what to make of this document, which is written in such an arcane and convoluted style that it challenges the attention span of even the most focused reader.
I have been researching this story for four years, and I found the following paragraphs the most intriguing:
9. In a letter dated 28 May 2016, the NIAID contacted EHA concerning possible GoF [gain-of-function] research based on information submitted in its most recent Year 2 RPPR. The NIAID notified EHA that GoF research conducted under Grant Number 5R01AI110964-03 would be subject to the 17 October 2014, United States Federal Government funding pause, and that per the funding pause announcement, new United States Federal Government funding would not be released for GoF research projects that may be reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route. In the letter, the NIAID requested that EHA provide a determination within 15 days of the date of the letter as to whether EHA’s research under Grant Number 5R01AI110964-03 did or did not include GoF work subject to the funding pause.
10. In a letter dated 8 June 2016, EHA provided a response to the NIAID’s 28 May 2016 letter. EHA explained that the goal of its proposed work was to construct MERS and MERS-like chimeric CoVs in order to understand the potential origins of MERSCoV in bats by studying bat MERS-like CoVs in detail. EHA stated that it believed it was highly unlikely that the proposed work would have any pathogenic potential, but that should any of these recombinants show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than certain specified benchmarks involving log growth increases, or grow more efficiently in human airway epithelial cells, EHA would immediately: (1) stop all experiments with the mutant, (2) inform the NIAID Programme Officer of these results, and (3) participate in decision-making trees to decide appropriate paths forward.
11. Based on the information provided by EHA, the NIAID concluded that the proposed work was not subject to the GoF research pause. In a letter dated 7 July 2016, however, the NIAID informed EHA that should any of the MERS-like or SARS-like chimaeras generated under the grant show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than 1 log over the parental backbone strain, EHA must stop all experiments with these viruses and provide the NIAID Programme Officer and Grants Management Specialist, and WIV Institutional Biosafety Committee, with the relevant data and information related to these unanticipated outcomes.
Note that various statements in the above paragraphs are inconsistent with what Baric et al. state in their 2015 paper ‘A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus shows potential for human emergence’ – a research paper funded by the NIAID EcoHealth Grant “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”
As the authors state in the section on biosafety and biosecurity:
Reported studies were initiated after the University of North Carolina Institutional Biosafety Committee approved the experimental protocol (Project Title: Generating infectious clones of bat SARS-like CoVs; Lab Safety Plan ID: 20145741; Schedule G ID: 12279). These studies were initiated before the ‘US Government Deliberative Process Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS and SARS Viruses’ [see HERE]. This paper has been reviewed by the funding agency, the NIH. Continuation of these studies was requested, and this has been approved by the NIH.
As I noted in my series of essays titled ‘The Great SARS-CoV-2 Charade’, one of the silliest lies told by Dr. Anthony Fauci has been his insistence that NIAID did not approve gain-of-function work by EcoHealth.
Fauci has repeatedly asserted this in a loud and vexed tone, as though he is outraged by the mere proposition. And yet, Ralph Baric and his colleagues – including Zhengli-Li Shi at the Wuhan Institute of Virology – plainly state in their 2015 paper that their gain-of-function experiments, performed in Baric’s [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] UNC lab and Zhengli-Li Shi’s lab in Wuhan, were grandfathered in, given that they were funded before the 2014 Pause.
Another statement (in paragraph 11 of the recent HHS Action Referral Memo) that deserves special scrutiny is the following:
In a letter dated 7 July 2016, however, the NIAID informed EHA that should any of the MERS-like or SARS-like chimaeras generated under the grant show evidence of enhanced virus growth greater than 1 log over the parental backbone strain, EHA must stop all experiments with these viruses and provide the NIAID Programme Officer and Grants Management Specialist, and WIV Institutional Biosafety Committee, with the relevant data and information related to these unanticipated outcomes.
Again, it’s tough to interpret this statement, given that Baric et al. had, by their own admission, already generated chimaeras that “replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titres equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.”
Let’s review what Baric et al. state in their ‘Abstract’ about the functionality of the chimaeric virus (named SHCOI4-MA15) they claimed to have generated. Using humanised mice (genetically modified to have primary human airway cells) as their experimental animals, the authors state:
Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterised a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.
The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titres equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis.
To this day, no legal authority that I am aware of has investigated the question: What became of the chimaeras SHC014-MA15 and WIV1-MA15? The latter chimaera was documented by Baric et al. in their March 2016 paper titled ‘SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence’-a chimaera “that replaced the SARS spike with the WIV1 spike within the mouse-adapted backbone.”
What did the Wuhan Institute of Virology (“WIV”) do with these chimaeras? Did its researchers continue to modify and experiment with these chimaeras?
Another exceedingly silly claim made by US government officials – including members of Congress – is that the true origin of SARS-CoV-2 is likely to remain a mystery, given that the Chinese government and military will almost certainly never agree to perform a full and transparent investigation of their Wuhan Institute of Virology.
What did the US government expect when it agreed to share cutting-edge American biotechnology with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has long been known to be run by the Chinese military?
One grows weary of our US government officials evading responsibility by pretending to be imbeciles or by revealing themselves to be true imbeciles.
About the Author
John Leake is a true crime author and writer who lives in Dallas, Texas, USA. In March 2020, when SARS-CoV-2 started to spread in the United States, he perceived that the pandemic response was illogical at best, and possibly criminal. This led to him co-authoring the book ‘The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalisation and Death While Battling the Biopharmaceutical Complex’ with Dr. Peter McCullough. Leake is a regular contributor to the Substack page ‘Courage Discourse’ which you can subscribe and follow HERE.
Featured image taken from ‘US Suspends EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak After Covid-19 Evidence Uncovered By House Committee’, InfoWars, 19 January 2025
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Hi Rhoda,
A really complicated story.
What I would like to know , did Peter Daszak get the C19 fluid.
He made the whole story up for funds.
Does he have a MAC address.
Just another distraction, bringing the culprits of the scamdemic to justice, yes, we need to, but these people are simply pawns used in the greater picture by the top control freaks and they take our attention away from the cloud seeding (with who knows what?) which is affecting the weather, and the nasty effect of all the wi-fi we are producing, which appears to be affecting bacteria (one of the largest number of lifeforms on the planet) adversely, with information surfacing, that radio waves are causing bacteria to become anti-biotic resistant. The idiots at the top really think they are more powerful than nature, ‘they’ve got another thing coming’ as the saying goes, but lets not allow the distractions, which they supply endlessly, to take our minds off the harm being done to life on earth.
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Some astute commentator recently said “They play chess while we play checkers.” The conspirators are always several moves ahead of the “truther” checkers players. The gain-of-function limited hangout story is a great example of this.
Because this story was initially suppressed but is now discussed in the mainstream you are being fooled into believing that it must be true and that we are starting to get justice. It’s all lies.
There is no “SARS-CoV-2 virus bioweapon” and it is impossible to confer “enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility” on particles that do not exist in the first place.
“Virus growth”,”log growth increases”, and growing “more efficiently in human airway epithelial cells” is all based on fraudulent pseudoscience. This has all been well documented for those that care to look.
Where is the evidence that “SARS-CoV-2 started to spread in the United States”? The pandemic response was certainly “illogical” if the aim was to save lives but very logical if the aim was to kill. It was not just “possibly criminal” it was democide based on a non existent virus and non existent pandemic.
Do you really think that being “formally debarred for five years” is a victory? Do you really think it is punishment enough for crimes against humanity?
This writer claims to have “been researching this story for four years” and yet still fails to understand the basics of virology, diagnostics, and epidemiology.
The “silliest lies told by Dr. Anthony Fauci” are that SARS-CoV-2 actually exists, that Covid-19 is a new and novel disease, and that there was a pandemic. These issues are what really deserve “special scrutiny”.
Those of us that understand the truth grow weary of people like this “pretending to be imbeciles or by revealing themselves to be true imbeciles.”
This is not “Courageous Discourse” it is a limited hangout psy-op performed by chess players. Stop falling for this nonsense. Stop playing checkers and start playing chess because that is the game the enemy are playing.
You speak as if you believe you “play chess” while so many others “play checkers” – Yet, interestingly, you are either knowingly pushing or have genuinely fallen lock, stock and barrel for at least one of the PsyOps they are running, possibly two.
And what PsyOps would those be?
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[…] The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance, a controversial nonprofit, from federal funding for five years. The decision, announced on January 17, follows an eight-month congressional investigation into the organization’s role in gain-of-function research tied to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic uncovered evidence that EcoHealth Alliance and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, repeatedly violated federal grant requirements, raising serious questions about accountability and transparency in taxpayer-funded research. In addition, EcoHealth Alliance has fired Daszak. […]