At the beginning of 2021, the Wuhan Institute of Virology removed the U.S. National Institutes of Health as one of its research partners from its website.
The discovery comes despite Dr. Anthony Fauci’s claims no relationship existed between the institutions.
Archived versions of the Wuhan lab’s website also reveal a research update “Will SARS Come Back?” – appearing to describe gain-of-function research being conducted at the institute by entities funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
On March 21st, 2021, the Wuhan lab’s website noted six U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife Federation.
Only a day later, the website was updated to contain only two research partners: EcoHealth Alliance and the University of Alabama. By March 23rd, EcoHealth Alliance was the only partner remaining.
EcoHealth Alliance is run by long-standing Chinese Communist Party partner Dr. Peter Daszak.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology’s move to remove the NIH from its website came amidst heightened scrutiny that the lab was the source of COVID-19 and that U.S. taxpayer dollars from the NIH may have funded the research.
The revelation of the lab’s attempted coverup also follows a heated exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Fauci, who is now trying to distance his organization from the Wuhan lab.
Beyond establishing a working relationship between the NIH and the Wuhan Institue of Virology, now-deleted posts from the site also specify studies bearing the hallmarks of gain-of-function research conducted with the Wuhan-based lab. Fauci, however, told Senator Paul that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”