follow the money – Pandemic Timeline https://pandemictimeline.com Chronological Sequence of Events Sat, 07 Oct 2023 22:14:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://pandemictimeline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Covid-150x150.ico follow the money – Pandemic Timeline https://pandemictimeline.com 32 32 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (USA) https://pandemictimeline.com/1986/11/national-childhood-vaccine-injury-act-of-1986-usa/ Fri, 14 Nov 1986 00:00:05 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=21 NCVIA’s purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims in order to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims.  The Justice Department was put in charge of the compensation program in an unprecedented arrangement.  Vice President George H.…

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NCVIA’s purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims in order to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine injury claims.  The Justice Department was put in charge of the compensation program in an unprecedented arrangement.  Vice President George H. W. Bush encouraged the signing of this bill in spite of objections from the Justice Department.

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]]> George magazine features Bill Gates and mentions a lung-attacking virus. https://pandemictimeline.com/1997/02/george-magazine-features-bill-gates-and-mentions-a-lung-attacking-virus/ Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00:31 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=28 So we hope you enjoy George’s take on the future. Why not put it in a safe place somewhere and take it out in 20 years? — John F. Kennedy Jr. In the section, “Disease: Killer Cooties by Arno Karlen, predictions for 2020: Some people have built careers hawking the worst-case scenario: an overpopulated planet…

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So we hope you enjoy George’s take on the future. Why not put it in a safe place somewhere and take it out in 20 years? — John F. Kennedy Jr.

In the section, “Disease: Killer Cooties by Arno Karlen, predictions for 2020:

Some people have built careers hawking the worst-case scenario: an overpopulated planet being choked to death by lung-attacking Andromeda* viruses, for example. It’s true that frightening global epidemics could arise from a new retrovirus, a killer flu, or an Ebola-type pathogen running out of control. Because our technology and our behavior have sped up microbial evolution, reducing the threat of new plagues will demand thoughtful efforts—slowing population growth, keeping our food and water clean, and setting up global systems to monitor infectious diseases and microbial drug resistance, for instance. Human extinction, however, is unlikely, not least because the human immune system is a marvel of resourcefulness. Infection is a universal fact of nature, and microbes share the environment with us. For some microbes, we are the environment! The greatest threat may not be microbes but our failure to protect ourselves.

Arno Karlen is the author of Man and Microbes (Touchstone)

— George, February 1997, p. 75 of original edition, p. 16 of abridged PDF linked here

* “Andromeda” is a reference to the book The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.

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]]> The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization is launched. https://pandemictimeline.com/1999/11/the-global-alliance-for-vaccines-and-immunization-is-launched/ Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00:20 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=38 November 1999 GAVI is formed as an initiative between The WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the then newly created Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Sources: Related:

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November 1999

GAVI is formed as an initiative between The WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the then newly created Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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]]> Health and Human Services awards grant to EcoHealth Alliance https://pandemictimeline.com/2014/06/health-and-human-services-awards-grant-to-ecohealth-alliance/ Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:43 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=753 On behalf of the U.S. government, often the military, Daszak scours the globe for animal pathogens and brings them back to the lab to be catalogued, investigated and manipulated. $ Award Amounts: $3.7M Grant description: Understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence But this is just one project.  A search of the system showed 37…

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On behalf of the U.S. government, often the military, Daszak scours the globe for animal pathogens and brings them back to the lab to be catalogued, investigated and manipulated.

$ Award Amounts: $3.7M

Grant description: Understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence

But this is just one project.  A search of the system showed 37 responses for EcoHealth Alliance, with a total of $15.2M.

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  • Government
    June 1, 2014. “GRANT to ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE INC.” USAspending.
    https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529.
    Government.
  • National Institutes of Health
    “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” NIH ⟩ RePORT ⟩ RePORTER. National Institutes of Health. Project Number: 1R01AI110964-01. Contact PI/Project Leader: Peter Daszak. Awardee Organization: ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE, INC.
    https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8674931.
    National Institutes of Health.
    This link has information about the grant given to EcoHealth Alliance and the work being done.
  • “Search Results: EcoHealth Alliance.” NIH ⟩ RePORT ⟩ RePORTER.
    https://reporter.nih.gov/search/yi9zmxlHDUO8yZkhiDs2uA/projects.
  • Research Journal
    December 2015. Vineet D. Menachery, Boyd L. Yount, Kari Debbink, Sudhakar Agnihothram, Lisa E. Gralinski, Jessica A. Plante, Rachel L. Graham, Trevor Scobey, Xing-Yi Ge, Eric F Donaldson, Scott H Randell, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Wayne A. Marasco, Zhengli-Li Shi, and Ralph S. Baric. “A SARS-like Cluster of Circulating Bat Coronaviruses Shows Potential for Human Emergence.” Nature Medicine 21 (12): 1508–13.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.3985.
    Research Journal.

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]]> Morningside Foundation gifts $350 million to Harvard School of Public Health https://pandemictimeline.com/2014/09/morningside-foundation-gifts-350-million-to-harvard-school-of-public-health/ Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=12378 A charitable foundation run in part by Gerald L. Chan, an alumnus and longtime benefactor of the Harvard School of Public Health, has pledged $350 million to the school, the largest single donation in Harvard’s history, the University announced this afternoon. In recognition of the gift, the University will rename the school the Harvard T.H.…

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A charitable foundation run in part by Gerald L. Chan, an alumnus and longtime benefactor of the Harvard School of Public Health, has pledged $350 million to the school, the largest single donation in Harvard’s history, the University announced this afternoon.

In recognition of the gift, the University will rename the school the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in honor of Chan’s late father. This is the first time in its history that Harvard has renamed one of its schools in recognition of philanthropy. …

The gift comes from the Morningside Foundation, which is supported by Gerald Chan and his brother Ronnie Chan.

— The Harvard Crimson

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]]> Wuhan labs funded. https://pandemictimeline.com/2015/01/wuhan-labs-funded/ Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:07 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=127 Sometime in 2015, most likely: Someone at the NIH approved money to be used for research at the Wuhan lab. The timing would suggest that this was done to skirt the 2014 congressional moratorium on gain of function research. For the last year and a half, questions have been raised about how and why EcoHealth…

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Sometime in 2015, most likely:

Someone at the NIH approved money to be used for research at the Wuhan lab. The timing would suggest that this was done to skirt the 2014 congressional moratorium on gain of function research.

For the last year and a half, questions have been raised about how and why EcoHealth Alliance provided the WIV with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Those funds were provided to EcoHealth Alliance in the form of grants from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

— “The Origins of COVID-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

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]]> Wuhan Institute of Virology inaugurates its BSL-4 lab https://pandemictimeline.com/2015/01/wuhan-institute-of-virology-inaugurates-its-bsl-4-lab/ Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:02 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=4368 The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory’s (WNBL) BSL-4 lab was constructed as a result of an agreement between the PRC and France that was signed after the 2003 SARS pandemic. Construction was completed in 2015, but due to delays the BSL-4 space did not become operational until early 2018.  This is an addition to an existing…

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The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory’s (WNBL) BSL-4 lab was constructed as a result of an agreement between the PRC and France that was signed after the 2003 SARS pandemic. Construction was completed in 2015, but due to delays the BSL-4 space did not become operational until early 2018.  This is an addition to an existing campus.

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]]> Peter Daszak addresses workshop https://pandemictimeline.com/2015/03/peter-daszak-addresses-workshop/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:00:47 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=1388 The workshop was “Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships.”  In it, Peter Daszak gave a presentation, “Ranking risk for zoonotic potential of novel viruses.”  In this speech, he was quoted as saying, Until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an emergency…

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]]> The workshop was “Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships.”  In it, Peter Daszak gave a presentation, “Ranking risk for zoonotic potential of novel viruses.”  In this speech, he was quoted as saying,

Until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored. To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis, he said, we need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs [medical countermeasures] such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of process.

Peter Daszak mentioned investors.

Did he suggest here that they create a pandemic for the purpose of selling something? Who was at this meeting? What would they be selling? Why exactly is Peter Daszak out in the jungles finding sick animals to bring back to labs?

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]]> EcoHealth Alliance seeks funding to release infected bats https://pandemictimeline.com/2018/03/ecohealth-alliance-seeks-funding-to-release-infected-bats/ Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:00:24 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=6462 Notice that the end date of the proposal is 5/31/22.  They aren’t done yet. — October 5, 2021 Sources: Local copy. See also, on this site: W.H.O. investigators arrive in China Data dump exposes EcoHealth Alliance grant request Tagged: EcoHealth Alliance

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Notice that the end date of the proposal is 5/31/22.  They aren’t done yet.

— October 5, 2021

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]]> Peter Daszak mentions coronavirus research in video https://pandemictimeline.com/2019/12/peter-daszak-mentions-coronavirus-research-in-video/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:43 +0000 https://pandemictimeline.com/?p=737 In this interview, Peter Daszak shares his background and how he works. At 8:35, the talk turns toward funding.  At 8:55, Vincent Racaniello asks, “How do you pay for all this?”  Peter Daszak talks about his history with the wildlife conservation charity.  He found it easier to get funding when he tied his work to…

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In this interview, Peter Daszak shares his background and how he works.

At 8:35, the talk turns toward funding.  At 8:55, Vincent Racaniello asks, “How do you pay for all this?”  Peter Daszak talks about his history with the wildlife conservation charity.  He found it easier to get funding when he tied his work to health.  He finds that health is a better motivator overall.

Beginning at 11:13:

We get money from foundations. We get money from private sector. So one of the things we’ve been trying to do is we work a lot on the underlying causes of pandemics—deforestation, climate change, wildlife hunting. That’s our conservation side as well. So we go to foundations and say, “Look, you’ve been trying to stop the wildlife trade in China for 20 years. You put all this money into it. If you have a health angle to that, it really does work. The markets, the wildlife markets in China were never closed down because of, you know, ethical concerns. But the minute SARS emerged, they closed them down. So that’s the argument we use, and we’re trying to put the health in conservation.

In other words, Peter Daszak’s primary motivation is conservation.  He sees health as an effective motivator to get governments to act on conservation issues.

EcoHealth Alliance headquarters are in New York.  At that office, there are people doing economic modeling, analytics, and gene sequence crunching.  The labs are all around the world.  On the relationship with labs, beginning at 12:07:

Usually, we subcontract to labs, but we usually try and have in every country a country Program Officer who manages the work we do in that country and sometimes regional. And we often hire technicians in labs or PhD students, you know, to have a have a presence in the lab. There’s more of a buy-in when you’ve got a person.

EcoHealth Alliance is in 30 countries.  Peter Daszak is in charge of China and Malaysia.

At the 28:10 mark of the podcast interview with Vincent Racaniello, Peter Daszak states that researchers found that SARS likely originated from bats and then set out to find more SARS-related coronaviruses, eventually finding over 100. He observed that some coronaviruses can “get into human cells in the lab,” and others can cause SARS disease in “humanized mouse models.”

Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance had previously been named Wildlife Trust because it is easier to get funding for health.  80% of his funding comes from government.

Given Peter Daszak’s comments about tying health to conservation issues to get results, we could later find that key players try to tie the pandemic to climate change initiatives.

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