National Security Council Spokesman: Biden Believes Gain-of-Function Research is ‘Prudent’

Even amid near conclusive evidence that the COVID-19 virus leaked from a U.S.-funded lab in Wuhan, China, the Biden administration still supports the risky practice of gain-of-function research.

The highly controversial research involves making pathogens and viruses more lethal and virulent in a laboratory, purportedly to study them.

When asked whether Joe Biden considers gain-of-function research to be “prudent,”  National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told RealClearPolitics on Monday that he does.

“He believes that it’s important to help prevent future pandemics, which means he understands that there has to be legitimate scientific research into the sources or potential sources of pandemics so that we understand it so that we can prevent them and we prevent them from happening obviously,” Kirby replied, adding that the president believed gain-of-function research “must be done in a safe and secure manner and as transparent as possible to the rest of the world.”

Summing up, Kirby told RCP, “I think that’s a fancy way of saying ‘yes.’”

While the U.S. Energy Department and FBI have reportedly concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely sprung from a laboratory leak, the Biden White House still maintains that the entire U.S. intelligence community has not yet reached a “consensus” on the matter.

When asked if the president has broached the issue with the Chinese government, Kirby claimed the administration has regularly called on Beijing to be more transparent. Kirby also told RCP that Biden called for additional cooperation on the matter “when he met with President Xi in Bali just a couple of months ago.” However, a White House readout of that meeting did not include any mention of the origins of COVID,  the New York Post reported at the time.

The Obama administration halted taxpayer funding for such research in 2014, but three years later, during the Trump administration, the National Institute of Health lifted quietly lifted the moratorium.

Dr. Li-Meng YAN, a whistleblower who worked in a Chinese Bio Safety Level 3 lab with COVID-19, has been saying since early 2020 that the virus came from the Wuhan Lab. In September of 2020, Dr. Yan told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that the Chinese government intentionally manufactured and released the virus, which led to worldwide shutdowns and deaths. The left-wing factcheck site Politifact at the time called Yan’s claims a “debunked conspiracy theory,” and rated it a “Pants on Fire” lie.

Appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight again on Monday, Dr. Yan explained that the release of the virus was purposeful because it’s impossible to cause a global pandemic through an accidental lab leak. She said there needs to be an investigation into the reason why the Chinese Communist Party released the coronavirus in Wuhan.

Chinese whistleblower @DrLiMengYAN1 told @TuckerCarlson Tonight that COVID was intentionally released by China to kill millions of people. WATCH. pic.twitter.com/ycROKuUcXJ

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 28, 2023

Former President Donald Trump was skewered in the media in 2020 for correctly stating that the virus came from the Wuhan Lab.

Trump correctly said that COVID came from a Wuhan lab and was annihilated by the ‘experts’ and the media.

We were right about everything.pic.twitter.com/jEoSAIxwN1

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 27, 2023

For the past three years, most corporate media outlets shot down the idea of a lab leak as a debunked conspiracy theory.

‘So Much for a Conspiracy Theory’: Fox News Plays a Montage of Media Dismissing the Covid Lab Leak as Conspiracy pic.twitter.com/QEOYBoRisr

— Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index (@alexdatig) February 28, 2023

EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S. National Institutes of Health grantee, passed taxpayer funds to the CCP-controlled Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain of function research on bat coronaviruses – research that may have started the pandemic.

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak reportedly worked closely with Wuhan lab “bat lady” Shi Zhengli.

The United States government agency was still doling out millions of taxpayer dollars to the EcoHealth Alliance as late as October of 2021, long after it became known that the Daszak-led operation had funneled federal grant money to the Wuhan Lab. The Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $4.67 million five-year grant to EcoHealth Alliance in late 2021.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has repeatedly clashed with Dr. Anthony Fauci, formerly the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), over federal government’s funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Lab.

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