Legacy magazine catches up on cover-up with major investigation
Establishment media outlets suddenly are reporting the Biden family influence-peddling enterprise 18 months after the election. And now, with attention on COVID-19 receding, a legacy magazine is alerting its readers to the long-available evidence of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s efforts to undermine the theory that the pandemic originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.
Vanity Fair reported – based on an analysis of more than 100,000 documents – that as investigations into the origin began, Fauci faced the problem of having granted millions of dollars to zoologist Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance to engage in dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses, including at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The magazine’s investigators found that Fauci quashed evidence supporting the lab leak theory after Daszak published a highly influential letter in February 2020 in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet. The letter, without disclosing Daszak’s clear conflict of interest, marginalized the lab leak possibility as a debunked conspiracy theory, signaling to media that only tin-foil hat investigators and journalists would pursue that line of inquiry.
The NIH, Vanity Fair noted, had issued a $3.7 million grant to Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance. The nonprofit then issued the Wuhan Institute of Virology nearly $600,000 in sub-awards before the NIH, under President Trump, suspended the grant in July 2020 due its possible connection to the pandemic and the apparent violation of an Obama-era moratorium on gain-of-function research.