NIH funded infected Wuhan worker – FOIA take

Yesterday another advocacy group alerted Twitter to new records which they obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits. Those records show that Ben Hu, the rumored “Patient Zero” of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), was getting checks from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Agency for International Development (USAID).

The NIH connection

An advocacy group calling itself the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) dropped this two-tweet thread on Twitter yesterday morning.

It links to this blog post detailing findings from their own investigation and their 2021 FOIA lawsuit against the NIH. Their chief finding is a record of “current and pending support” to Mr. Hu at WIV. According to this record, Hu received nearly $45 million in aid through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., was nominally the director of NIAID – while he received a salary higher than the President’s salary.

WCW has further information that appears to corroborate Mike Shellenberger’s thread identifying three WIV investigators as the first three persons to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. Ben Hu was their apparent leader, as CNAV covered three days ago. The U.S. State Department published their suspicions along this line five days before Inauguration Day 2021. Why this fact sheet has remained “up” on the State Department servers is unclear. (It is now available on the Wayback Machine as well.) This page lists other damning information about WIV’s activities. Illnesses among WIV staff head the list, which also includes descriptions of:

• Their gain-of-function research programs that have run since “at least 2016” and did not stop before the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, and
• Secret military-related activity, which could indicate biological weapons development.

WCW states as their mission a goal to stop any and all government animal experiments, or government funding of same.