(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Covid vaccine propagandist Peter Hotez’s newly-reported ties to Chinese military scientists and their work on coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could explain his fierce reluctance to engage in public debate over the efficacy of vaccines and vaccine mandates.
A professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Hotez secured a grant of more than $1-million-a-year from the Anthony Fauci-led National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, which ultimately turned into seed money for a long-running collaboration “with scientists from the People’s Liberation Army and the Wuhan Institute of Virology” that were “potentially involved in the development of COVID-19,” according to a blockbuster report from Kanekoa News.
The grant money secured by Hotez, as a cut-out for Fauci’s NIAID, was used to support Hotez’s research project titled “RBD Recombinant Protein-Based SARS Vaccine for Biodefense.” The principal investigator listed for the project was Dr. Jiang Shibo, according to documents obtained by Kanekoa News.
In addition to a background steeped in academia and viral immunology research, Shibo also has a rich history of ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army and its Academy of Military Medical Sciences.
Shibo’s involvement with the Chinese military didn’t prevent him from receiving “research grants totaling over $20 million from NIAID under Dr. Fauci’s leadership between 1997 and 2016.”
Shibo — the “principal investigator” for the Hotez project — “actively collaborated” with the Chinese military/medical complex on myriad research papers, some of which were flagged by a 2020 FBI report as ones that “usually involve undisclosed and illegal transfers of information, technology, or intellectual property detrimental to U.S. institutions,” according to Kanekoa News.
In that vein, Shibo and other leading Chinese scientists dove into patents and papers on SARS and MERS coronaviruses. Those included Dr. Zhou Yusen, a People’s Liberation Army virologist who “filed the world’s first patent application for a COVID-19 vaccine in China on February 24, 2020, just a month after the country acknowledged human-to-human transmission,” Kanekoa News reported.
“This discovery raises suspicions that the Chinese military may have been working on a vaccine even before officially notifying the World Health Organization about the outbreak,” the outlet noted.
Yusen, who mysteriously “fell” from the roof of the Wuhan Institute of Virology within three months of filing the COVID vax patent, is listed as co-author of “at least five publications funded by Dr. Fauci and Dr. Hotez’s grant,” documents showed.
Well, hopefully, someone asks Dr. Hotez why the PLA scientist who submitted the first patent application for a COVID-19 vaccine in February 2020, only to be thrown off the roof of the Wuhan Lab three months later, is the co-author of five publications that he funded?
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) June 23, 2023
Hotez’s entanglement deepens with his “subcontracted funding” for Chinese military scientists and their ties to Wuhan research “in the field of artificially inserting furin cleavage sites into coronaviruses” and its links to gain-of-function manipulations, according to research papers posted by Kanekoa News.
Given Hotez’s reported history, it might take more than $3-million to lure him into a public debate on vaccines with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“While Dr. Hotez criticizes congressional hearings on the origins of COVID-19, stating that they are ‘inviting fringe elements to testify and promote outlandish conspiracy theories,’ even warning that investigation will ‘undermine the fabric of science in America,’ it is crucial to examine the mounting connections between Dr. Hotez, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Shibo, Dr. Lanying, and Dr. Yusen with Chinese military scientists, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the suspicious furin cleavage site,” Kanekoa wrote.
“This evidence demands a thorough investigation to uncover the truth about the origins of the COVID-19 virus, a truth that holds profound implications for people worldwide.”
