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HILTON: "Now, despite the controversy surrounding this type of research, it always had one steadfast champion, a leading figure in the world of infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci. His institute funded that first ferret study at the time he co-wrote an op-ed in 'The Washington Post' describing the research as 'a risk worth taking; important information and insights can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory.' And shortly before the Obama Administration’s ban on gain of function research in 2014, Fauci commissioned this. It was a project to assess the risk of new Coronaviruses emerging from wild animals like bats. One of its stated aims was to see what viruses can infect both animals and humans. Now pay close attention to these words right at the end of the project summary. 'Predictive models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) will be tested experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments across a range of cell cultures from different species and humanized mice.' That is a description of viral gain of function research — the exact type of research that the Obama Administration stopped. But Fauci didn't stop it, he continued on by subcontracting it to this group — Ecohealth Alliance based in New York. It is run by a big name in the field of virus research, Peter Daszak. He is a zoologist who specializes in wildlife diseases. His claim to fame, and it's a big one, is that he was the person who first discovered the bat origin of the SARS pandemic just over a decade ago. Daszak established that the virus came from bats by a civet cat in the Chinese market. Ever since then, Daszak developed a reputation as the 'Batman.' He and his team would literally go to remote jungle caves to collect back samples for scientific research. The project that Fauci commissioned gave Ecohealth Alliance more than $3 million over the course of six years, despite the Obama Administration's ban.”