Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed that at least 15 federal agencies knew of a project from EcoHealth Alliance that could have created a virus similar to COVID.
said that 15 federal agencies were aware of a proposed project from 2018 that would have allowed virus research organization, sparking concerns about the extent to which the Trump administration should have been aware of the risks of research into dangerous viruses before the start of the COVID pandemic.
Documents revealed by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which Paul is the top Republican member, indicate that several agencies, including the, were aware of EcoHealth’s hope to create in China what Paul calls “a novel chimeric virus” with pandemic potential.
Paul said that the DEFUSE project would have specifically inserted a furin cleavage site onto a coronavirus, a key feature of SARS-CoV-2 that makes it easily transmissible among humans.on Tuesday that he had received documentation from the Biden administration that key agencies in public health and national security were made aware of the DEFUSE project at an event hosted by DARPA before the outbreak of the pandemic.
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