It Was Never About a Virus

In a just country, some would go to prison:

Her first point is one that has raised eyebrows among many scientists and laypeople alike: “The SARS-like virus that caused the pandemic emerged in Wuhan, the city where the world’s foremost research lab for SARS-like viruses is located.”

It is possibly just a coincidence, but Chan sees it as one point among several that buttress her theory. She points out that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been hunting for SARS-like viruses for more than 10 years, led by Dr. Shi Zhengli, whose team made several trips to Yunnan province, more than 1,500 kilometres away, to collect bats.

When the pandemic began, she adds, Dr. Shi publicly wondered if the outbreak might have come from her lab.

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New data from the National Institutes of Health reveal the agency and its scientists collected $710 million in royalties during the pandemic, from late 2021 through 2023. These are payments made by private companies, like pharmaceuticals, to license medical innovations from government scientists.

Almost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.

Information about this vast private royalty complex is tightly held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). My organization, OpenTheBooks.com, was forced to sue to uncover the royalties paid from September 2009 to October 2021, which amounted to $325 million over 56,000 transactions.