Newsroom /

'THEY TRIED TO MASK IT': Gain-of-Function Research Was Shielded Under NGO Funding [WATCH]


GAI President and New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer says EcoHealth Alliance — a nonprofit research organization focused on global health, conservation, and the study of emerging infectious diseases — is a prime example of why we need more transparency into NGO cash.

Schweizer made the assertion during a recent media appearance.

“I want to go back to EcoHealth Alliance. It’s the pinnacle example of why we shouldn’t give unaccountable money, because they funded stuff that crushed the Globe’s economy,” said NEWSMAX host Carl Higbie.

“Yeah, they did. They funded stuff that crushed the economy. And as you hinted at earlier, they went through an NGO precisely because the Obama Administration, one of the few things they did right, banned gain of function research by U.S. government labs,” Schweizer said.

“So what they did was they said, ‘We’re going to give money to this NGO and they try to mask it and say it wasn’t gain-of-function research.’ You can do that with these NGOs,” Schweizer continued. “You can do that with these grants. You can sort of wiggle out of accountability and obscure what you’re doing. Again, it’s about accountability. And by freezing these and bring it out into the open, we’re going to avoid this hopefully in the future.”

Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee announced that the HHS had cut funding to EcoHealth for facilitating gain-of-function research.

“HHS has cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance & its former President, Dr. Peter Daszak, for five years based on evidence uncovered by @COVIDSelect. EcoHealth and Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China without proper oversight and violated requirements of its multimillion-dollar NIH grant,” the committee shared on X.