One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

They had nothing to hide.

That’s why they hid it.

A U.S. partner of the Wuhan Institute of Virology manipulated a coronavirus to generate up to 10,000 times the viral load, violating provisions of its National Institutes of Health contract that forbade unregulated research that could make a disease significantly more dangerous or transmissible.

The information was revealed this week in a letter from the NIH to House Republicans. NIH said the nonprofit partner, EcoHealth Alliance, must submit any unpublished data to the agency by Monday to come back into compliance with its NIH grant. Any new documents could shed further light on the controversial nonprofit’s research.

The EcoHealth project ran afoul of NIH terms because it experimented with changing the spike protein of a bat coronavirus identified by researchers as “poised for human emergence” and tested how well it infected human airway cells, according to the letter released by House Oversight and Reform ranking member James R. Comer, R-Ky., late Wednesday. The committee also released a long overdue progress report detailing the group’s work from 2018 to 2019. EcoHealth, a New York-based intermediary between the NIH and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, did not submit it to NIH until August.

The NIH’s letter states that EcoHealth violated a provision in its contract requiring a report to government funders should one of the viruses in its experiment produce “a one log increase in growth.” In other words, EcoHealth was not supposed to enhance a virus’s ability to grow by a factor of 10 without notifying NIH.

EcoHealth, working with the Wuhan lab, created novel coronaviruses that enhanced viral growth by 1,000-fold to 10,000-fold, orders of magnitude greater than the limit that should have triggered further NIH review, according to agency documents made public in recent weeks. The increase in viral load, which is closely tied to transmissibility, also resulted in more severe disease in mice in some cases.

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24 Replies to “One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest”

  1. This has a kind of “12 monkeys” feel to it.

    I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to discover that these environmental nutjobs were trying to create something that would save the planet……from people.

    1. “Eco”
      When you see that three letter prefix attached to a word – you know there is a lie somewhere. You had best go in the opposite direction
      as fast as you can.

  2. I am not a mathematical genius and only vaguely remember my high school adventures in calculus and trigonometry, but I believe the log of one is zero and therefore the trigger for reporting a “gain of function” result from experimentation is any gain of function whatsoever and not a 10x gain. Somebody more mathematically inclined than I should feel free to correct my misapprehension of what “a one log increase in growth” means.

    1. A further mathematical observation: If a 10x increase is indeed the trigger, I would suggest that a 1000% increase is not in fact “orders of magnitude” higher than a 10x increase, as a simple experiment with a calculator will demonstrate.

      1. Yes, a 10^1 increase is a 10X increase.
        So the 1000X to 10,000X increase is a 100,000% to 1,000,000% increase

    2. Yes, you’ve got that right, but it depends on the base of the logarithm. Most of us think in tens, so a log 10 makes sense. Another way to put it is
      10^0 = 1 (no change)
      10^1 = 10 (ten times more)
      10^2 = 100 (one hundred times more)
      10^3 = 1,000 (one thousand times more).
      10^4 = 10,000 (ten thousands time more).

      The order of magnitude can be thought of “If I round to the first digit, how many zeros after the first digit?”. If something is 250 times, that rounds to 300 and there there are two zeros after the first digit, so it’s a second order effect. How the rounding works is key, something 80x is the same order of magnitude as something that is 110x.

      Using the Natural Logarithm (there’s a lot more math behind it that I don’t want to go into) doesn’t use a base of 10, it uses a base of 2.718 (extra decimals stretching to infinity). Using the natural log, each step (being increasing the exponent by 1) is about 3 times bigger than the one before. This confuses most folks, so usually the base 10 version (how many zeros after the rounded first digit?) is what is used.

      Either way / either base, it’s a way to compare multiplications rather than additions. Does this help?

  3. Nothing to see here, take your shots and line up for the next one, sooner or later we will manage to kill you.

  4. It says Democrats will block subpoenas and further investigation which is good, let them own it completely.

  5. And many wonder why there are so many skeptics regarding vaccines and covid. We are no closer finding out about the 2 Chinese scientists and the Winnipeg laboratory. The CCP must have the juiciest honeypot information on Justin

  6. When do the trials and executions start? I volunteer to flip the switch on Fauci after he is found guilty. Sear that grin permanently in place. They deliberately killed millions of people.

  7. The CDC is apparently considering changing the definition of fully injected to include the latest booster. Only a few daze ago I told my oldest daughter that this would be forthcoming.

    I expect ahead-of-the-totalitarian-curve Trudeau to be hot on this.
    If so it will come to pass that a sheep in BC who got the two shots may not be able to fly to Alberta without his EGTIP (experimental gene therapy injection passport) updated to include the latest booster shot.

  8. Where is the source for this? The NIH letter does NOT say what the linked article says. They violated strict grant requirements, but my understanding is it has nothing to do with ePPPs.

  9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24172901/

    SHC014 was discovered in nature in 2013. It already had the spike protein. Nowhere in the letter does it say it was modified. It only says they experienced unexpected growth above the grant threshold for notification.

    The above is exactly what the funding is to be used for.

    There goes the narrative.

  10. Allan S, as shown by many of your comments on SDA, thereine lies the problem…..”My understanding”.

    1. He’s adept at splitting minor hairs and proclaiming them as major differences of fact.

      He has no context, and is just doing what trolls do, argue just to argue and deflect.

      Fauci and all MHOs that parrot this maggot should pay for this, the ultimate price. Instead, they are proclaimed as heroes by corrupt tyrants.

      We”re in this for the long haul, and tyrants Blackie and Bonnie Nazi have already taken away many rights. And when we still don’t acquiesce to their jab of toxin, what’s next?
      Seizing of bank accounts and assets?
      Banning from supermarkets?
      Home invasions and forcibly assaulted?
      Internment camps?
      They are not going to leave us alone, and will penalize us multiple times, for the singular crime of CHOOSING our personal medical procedures.

  11. This kind of research, though risky, can be rationalized. That said, the reckless stupidity in this case is mind boggling. Why would anyone engage in this kind of experimentation in a densely populated urban environment and why would anyone rely on the Chinese to rigorously perform the necessary safety protocols and why, why, why would anyone trust them to be ethical and above board?
    On so many websites, gasbags have emerged to demand that China be held accountable and compensate the rest of the world, totally ignoring complicity by the USA, and maybe even Canadian cooperation. This thought lead me to wonder why aren’t other countries demanding accountability and compensation. Were some of their scientists collaborating too?

  12. Me No Dhimme, I am awaiting with bated breath, the outcry of those who have had two shots being denied access to places and stuff that they have been shouting loudly for others to be denied of, because they haven’t had their booster…..,

  13. The goal was, and remains, to develop a germ that will kill white people by the tens of millions but won’t give Chinese people so much as a sniffle—this being the only practical way of clearing North America for Chinese settlement.

    This is quite all right with our globalist masters. Having tried and failed to enslave white men, they’ll settle for white genocide, on the dime of the American taxpayer.

    (But, you say, “That’s insane! Chinese and white people are too similar genetically! Developing such a weapon is impossible!”

    Forgive me if I leave it to you to explain that to our masters.)

    1. Maybe they are tired of waiting for Jesus to come for us in the rapture and are trying to hurry things up? Taking along a lot of collateral damage ones too though.

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