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Was EcoHealth Alliance, the group referenced in the article, working in Wuhan?

>>jasonl+(OP)
Yes they were, in particular with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Peter Daszak himself was in Wuhan in October 2019.

EcoHealth just got defunded by the US Congress with bipartisan support: https://twitter.com/GReschenthaler/status/144122144752803020...

>>Albert+D3
This grant proposal, in particular, however, was to do work in North Carolina.

>>NoGrav+p4
Citing from the grant application, page 12:

> We will conduct in vitro pseudovirus binding assays, using established techniques, and live virus binding assays (at WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] to prevent delays and unnecessary dissemination of viral cultures)

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...

>>Albert+D3
In addition there was some controversy as they were behind the Lancet open letter that first renounced the idea of a lab origin. They got a bunch of scientists associated with their organisation to sign it, without mentioning EcoHealth by name or stating competing interest.

My spidey sense is certainly tingling, though of course no smoking guns. But the jigsaw pieces fit. Can’t get the funding in North Carolina? Let’s try Wuhan.

>>rich_s+ej
I believe they declared "no competing interest".

>>shadil+9T2
Right, and 26 of the 27 who signed that letter had conflicts of interest -https://archive.ph/dXc0n