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.”

Source:

• 
  August 2021. “The Origins of COVID-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” House Foreign Affairs Committee Report Minority Staff.
  https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf.
  Government, PDF.

See also, on this site:

• Rep. Matt Gaetz reported funding of Wuhan labs.

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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  February 3, 2015. “China Inaugurates the First Biocontainment Level 4 Laboratory in Wuhan.” Wuhan Institute Of Virology,CAS.
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On September 12, 2019 the WIV’s online, public database of samples and virus sequences was taken offline in the middle of the night between 2:00AM and 3:00AM local time. The database contained more than 22,000 entries consisting of sample and pathogen data collected from bats and mice. The database contained key information about each sample, including what type of animal it was collected from, where it was collected, whether the virus was successfully isolated, the type of virus collected, and its similarity to other known viruses.

To date, there has been no consistent answer provided as to why the database was removed or when or if it will be put back online.

Shi is listed as the data correspondence author for the project. When questioned about the database being taken offline, Shi has given several conflicting answers. During a December 2020 interview with BBC, Shi said the database was taken offline for “security reasons” after cyberattacks against the work and personal emails of WIV staff. She also insisted that WIV virus sequences were saved in the GenBank database, run by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Shi stated, “It’s completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.”

In a January 26, 2021 email to someone inquiring about the database, however, Shi stated the database was taken down due to cyberattacks “during [the] COVID-19 pandemic.” She also claimed that researchers had “only entered a limit[ed] data in this database” despite it having more than 22,000 entries.

…

Around the time the WIV’s virus database went offline, car traffic at hospitals in downtown Wuhan began to increase. Researchers from Boston University School of Public Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School used satellite imagery to examine parking lot volume of hospitals in Wuhan for the two and a half years prior to December 2019. They found that five of six hospitals analyzed had the highest relative daily volume of cars in the parking lot in September and October 2019, before the first reported cases of COVID-19.

When people get sick, they are likely to seek healthcare near their home or work. Each of the hospitals that saw a rise in traffic with patients complaining of COVID-19 symptoms are located within 6.5 miles of the WIV Headquarters and are connected by public transit lines. The below map shows the location of the WIV Headquarters (in red) and the six hospitals (in blue) which experienced increase vehicle traffic in September and October 2019.

Harvard Study Hospitals in Relation to the WIV Headquarters

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

Source:

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  June 8, 2020. Elaine Okanyene Nsoesie, Benjamin Rader, Yiyao L. Barnoon, Lauren Goodwin, and John Brownstein. “Analysis of Hospital Traffic and Search Engine Data in Wuhan China Indicates Early Disease Activity in the Fall of 2019.” Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication.
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  Government, PDF.

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.

Sources:

• 
  January 18, 2021. Keoni Everington. “WHO Inspector Caught on Camera Revealing Coronavirus Manipulation in Wuhan before Pandemic.” Taiwan News.
  https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4104828.
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  May 18, 2020. Vincent Racaniello. TWiV 615: Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance. Runtime: 35:52.
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  June 4, 2021. Amazing Polly. Bat Soup – Lab Leaks & Gain of Function Virus Research. Runtime: 57:39.
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  Description includes extensive list of references.

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  January 31, 2020. Jon Cohen. “Mining Coronavirus Genomes for Clues to the Outbreak’s Origins.” Science | AAAS.
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  July 12, 2022. “Judicial Watch: NIH Records Reveal FBI Inquiry of Wuhan Grant.” Judicial Watch.
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  July 14, 2022. Tom Fitton. HUGE: Fauci Agency Grant Tied to Wuhan and “Gain of Function” Was under FBI Investigation! Judicial Watch. Runtime: 1:00.
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  Video.
• 
  July 15, 2022. Tom Fitton. FBI Investigating Fauci? Plus—Biden Betraying Our Troops! Judicial Watch. Runtime: 44:12.
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  Video.
• 
  July 18, 2022. Tom Fitton. FBI Investigated Fauci Agency on China Grant!!!! Judicial Watch. Runtime: 28:02.
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  Video.
  This video is the Fauci/NIH portion of the July 15 video above.

See also, on this site:

• Wuhan labs funded.

The response to this disaster must be to prevent this from happening again. The only way to protect the world from another devastating debacle like this is to get to the bottom of its origin. Almost three years after the first SARS-CoV-2 patients were reported in Wuhan, China, most Americans still do not know the truth about the origin of SARS-CoV-2. There are many as-yet unanswered questions:

• Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? Lab? Animal?
• If SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a lab, which one(s)?
• Who was involved in the development of SARS-CoV-2?
• Who paid for it?
• And why has this information not been made public?

This document is designed to answer these questions, with the best evidence available at this time. Arriving at a conclusion required the analysis of large amounts of research, some of which is quite complex. We have done our best to summarize complex data in relatively easy-to-understand terms.

— Thomas Renz

Thomas Renz has offered to assist any attorney general or congress member who wants to pursue criminal charges related to the COVID-19 crisis.

Sources:

• 
  October 2, 2022. Tom Renz. “The Creation of SARS-COV2 & What Will Be Done About It.” Substack newsletter. Tom’s Newsletter.
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• 
  September 12, 2022. Thomas Renz. “Answering Crucial Questions About Sars-CoV-2.”
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  Local copy.
• 
  September 18, 2022. Thomas Renz. “BREAKING: The Origins of SARS-COV2 Fauci, Wuhan, EcoHealth & More.” Renz Law.
  https://renz-law.com/breaking-the-origins-of-sars-cov2fauci-wuhan-ecohealth-more/.
  Law, Video, Presentation.
• 
  October 4, 2022. Emerald Robinson. “Who Told You In 2021 That Peter Daszak & Ralph Baric Created COVID?” Substack newsletter. Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way.
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  Blog.
• 
  Thomas Renz. Renz Law.
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  Law.

See also, on this site:

• Thomas Renz files a lawsuit

Shocking new insider information that shows what really happened in Wuhan, China, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak and in the ensuing cover-up.

The day that Dr. Andrew G. Huff left his senior scientist and vice president role at EcoHealth Alliance was one of the happiest days of his life due to the corruption he had witnessed at the organization. However, he never thought working there would be of any great consequence to the future. He was wrong. Because, as an EcoHealth Alliance insider, Dr. Huff had had a ringside seat to one of the biggest cover-ups in history.

The Truth about Wuhan contains new research and a breakdown of how and why the development of COVID-19 in the United States and China was supported by the US government to collect intelligence on laboratories in China. Dr. Huff, an expert in the fields of bioterrorism and bio warfare, is a whistleblower who will show why the reasons the lab leak was covered up are incorrect. He worked on the classified research side of the program as a US government scientist. He knows the real how and why COVID-19 emerged. Besides exposing the conspiracy and cover-up, Dr. Huff also puts forth policy solutions and recommendations to prevent a lab leak virus from plaguing the world again.

The Truth about Wuhan simply explains the complexity of the system that led to COVID-19’s emergence; how the medical industrial complex grew and became entrenched in gain of function work after 9/11; why EcoHealth Alliance was the (almost) perfect intelligence collection cover; the policy actions and decision-making process as to why the United States government engaged in the COVID cover-up; how and why the United States swapped biotechnology with China and biomedical corporations; and the incentives for each of the actors or governments to engage and coordinate a global cover-up of COVID-19 origins.

The Truth about Wuhan also shows how and why Dr. Anthony Fauci is intricately involved in the COVID cover-up; how scientists like EcoHealth Alliance president and CEO Dr. Peter Daszak rose to power and used their influence to corrupt science and the COVID origin investigation; and how the intelligence community likely orchestrated the cover-up with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Dr. Huff also provides personal harrowing accounts of how the US government waged a psychological operation against him to prevent him from speaking out. COVID-19 is the biggest lie, scandal, and intelligence failure in US history, and Dr. Andrew G. Huff is stepping out of the shadows to share his insider story about this failure that led to millions of deaths around the world.

— Book description on Amazon

Sources:

• 
  December 6, 2022. Andrew G. Huff. The Truth about Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History. Skyhorse.
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  February 6, 2023. Del Bigtree with Andrew Huff. EX-ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE EXEC TURNS WUHAN WHISTLEBLOWER. The Highwire with Del Bigtree. Runtime: 1:03:43.
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  Video.