Leaked Documents Reveal Proposal by Daszak’s Organization for Developing COVID-Like Viruses

Whistleblower document reveals 2018 funding proposal that detailed risky gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses

Peter Daszak (R) and other members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on Feb. 3, 2021. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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New documents detail how Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were planning to use gain-of-function experiments to artificially insert “human-specific cleavage sites” into coronaviruses in order to increase their ability to infect human cells.