There is a lot left out of this article. The headline. KInd of misleading that "created bat virus that made mice sicker" On th every last line of this article it is mentioned in passing that the mice are genetically modified humanized models.
96 to 97% of the SAR-Cov-2 Sequence. Not mention is that the the 96 to 97% shared sequence is the closest known virus sequence to the SAR-Cov-2 virus.
At the same time, NIH emphasized in a newly released analysis that any viruses being studied at WIV under the grant were too evolutionarily distant from SARS-CoV-2 to have been transformed into it.
Along with its letter to Congress, NIH appended and also posted online a new analysis asserting that the viruses studied at WIV under the grant share no more than 96% to 97% of the SARS-CoV-2 sequence, which puts the viruses “decades” of evolution apart.
“The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied under the NIH grant are genetically far distant from SARS-CoV-2 and could not possibly have caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Any claims to the contrary are demonstrably false,” the agency said in a statement.
They only link to another Science story when the article states:
NIH had funded and later canceled at then-President Donald Trump’s behest. (It was later reinstated but with conditions EcoHealth said it could not comply with.)
https://www.science.org/content/article ... eted-trump
NIH imposes ‘outrageous' conditions on resuming coronavirus grant targeted by Trump
This what science previously said about ending this research.
Further more just slightly into the article
The National Institutes of Health is requiring a small nonprofit research organization to take unusual—and perhaps impossible—steps to end a controversial suspension of an NIH grant related to bat coronavirus research in China.
NIH's conditions for reinstating the funding to the EcoHealth Alliance are "outrageous," former NIH Director Harold Varmus told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in an article published today that first reported the agency's demands.
Next paragraph
The controversy began in April, after President Donald Trump complained about NIH's grant to the EcoHealth Alliance because it involved researchers at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Conservative commentators, Trump, and Trump administration officials have asserted, without evidence, that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 escaped from WIV. Shortly after Trump's complaint, NIH abruptly canceled the grant, stating that its goal of studying bat coronavirus spillovers into humans did not "align with … agency priorities." NIH's move drew extensive criticism from the scientific community.
The OUTRAGEOUS condition to re-instate the grant
The EcoHealth Alliance must provide a sample of the pandemic coronavirus that WIV used to determine its genetic sequence.
The group must arrange for an outside inspection of WIV and its records "with specific attention to addressing the question of whether WIV staff had SARS-CoV-2 in their possession prior to December 2019," Lauer wrote.
The nonprofit must explain purported restrictions at WIV including "diminished cell-phone traffic in October 2019, and the evidence that there may have been roadblocks surrounding the facility from October 14-19, 2019."
The nonprofit must "provide the NIH with WIV's responses to the 2018 Department of State cables regarding safety concerns."
More of FORMER NIH Director Varmus's statement on the grant cancelation
Varmus, one of 77 Nobel laureates who wrote to current NIH Director Francis Collins in May demanding that he review the grant's initial cancellation, told WSJ that NIH's list of conditions for reinstating the funding "is outrageous, especially when a grant has already been carefully evaluated by peer review and addresses one of the most important problems in the world right now—how viruses from animals spill over to human beings."
NOT A SINGLE MENTION THAT THE RESEARCH GRANT WAS SUSPENDED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
OK they have made me curious.
The CEO of the parent organization of Science The American Association for the advancement of science was a prior to his current position a Washington Lobbyist for the medical industry:
https://www.aaas.org/person/sudip-parikh
Immediately prior to joining AAAS, Parikh was senior vice president and managing director at DIA Global, a neutral, multidisciplinary organization bringing together regulators, industry, academia, patients, and other stakeholders interested in healthcare product development. He led strategy in the Americas and oversaw DIA programs that catalyzed progress globally toward novel regulatory frameworks for advanced therapies not amenable to existing regulations.
Further:
From 2001 to 2009,
***Parikh served as science advisor and professional staff to the United States Senate Appropriations Committee***, where he was responsible for negotiating budgets for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and other scientific and health agencies. A key legislative liaison to the research and development ecosystem, Parikh was on the frontlines of many science policy issues debated during that time, including embryonic stem cell research, cloning, disease surveillance, bioterrorism, cyber security, and doubling the NIH budget.
A list of article by Sudip S Parikh
https://muckrack.com/sudip-s-parikh/articles
Lots of CRT
Also PArikh is credited with doubling the NIH's annual budget about 10 years ago. Sorry no link
Getting tired. OR I wold post more. In any event all of the above is just the same old same old "Orange Man bad" crowd that is trying to do some serious CYA for the NIH. Nothing to see here folks move along