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Trump Admin Cuts Funding for Coronavirus Researcher, Jeopardizing COVID-19 Cure
This is stunning to watch. 60 Minutes details a "political disinformation campaign" that went from Matt Gaetz to Tucker Carlson to OAN to Trump and killed one of the most important virology programs in the world. Please watch the 60 minutes video and/or read the transcript at the link below:
Peter Daszak is a British-born American Ph.D. who's spent a career discovering dangerous viruses in wildlife, especially bats. In 2003, in Malaysia, he warned 60 Minutes a pandemic was coming.
"What worries me the most is that we are going to miss the next emerging disease, that we're suddenly going to find a SARS virus that moves from one part of the planet to another, wiping out people as it moves along."
In the 17 years since that prophecy, Peter Daszak became president of the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance. In China, EcoHealth has worked for 15 years with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Together they've catalogued hundreds of bat viruses, research that is critical right now.
You can guess what's coming next.
But his funding from the NIH, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, was killed, two weeks ago, by a political disinformation campaign targeting China's Wuhan Institute.
That grant was to Peter Daszak's U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance for disease prevention it does throughout the world. His work was considered so important that, last year, the grant was reauthorized and increased by the Trump administration.
You get the drift.
Please watch the 60 minutes video and/or read the transcript at the link below: