{"id":79686,"date":"2021-08-11T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=79686"},"modified":"2021-08-11T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:56:35","slug":"newsweek-its-time-nih-transparency-wuhan-lab-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/newsweek-its-time-nih-transparency-wuhan-lab-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek: It&#8217;s Time for NIH Transparency on Wuhan Lab Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The recent spats between Dr.&nbsp;<a data-sys=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/anthony-fauci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>&nbsp;and Sen.&nbsp;<a data-sys=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/rand-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rand Paul<\/a>&nbsp;(R-Ky.) about how the coronavirus pandemic started made for good television. The head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IqUOcVwRUtc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wagged his finger<\/a>&nbsp;at a United States senator and called him a liar. Dr. Fauci rejected the premise of tough, evidence-based questions about our government&#8217;s support of risky &#8220;gain-of-function&#8221; research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on his watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">While everyone in Washington loves a good debate, we need less finger wagging and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/empowr.us\/covid-19-origins-timeline\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">more facts<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The public deserves access to documents from both the Chinese government and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Communist China&#8217;s secrecy is to be expected, of course, but the U.S. government ought to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/empowr.us\/nih-covid-database-foia\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">more transparent<\/a>&nbsp;and stop hiding what it knows about the virus research in Wuhan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Public health experts agree that to stop the next pandemic, we must find out how the COVID-19 virus\u2014which has killed more than 4 million people worldwide and 600,000 Americans\u2014began in China. Some argue the pandemic started because of a natural virus spillover from bats or other animals to humans, while others posit that it could have started through a leak from a lab in Wuhan, China, where scientists have been collecting and studying similar viruses for years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">The recent spats between Dr.&nbsp;Anthony Fauci&nbsp;and Sen.&nbsp;Rand Paul&nbsp;(R-Ky.) about how the coronavirus pandemic started made for good television. 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