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Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins

Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins

Now, The Lancet is handing even more influence to the group that has conflicts of interest on the important public health question of the pandemic origins. On Nov. 23, The Lancet named a new 12-member panel to the The Lancet COVID 19 Commission. The chairman of the new task force to investigate the “Origins, Early Spread of the Pandemic, and One Health Solutions to Future Pandemic Threats” is none other than the EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak.

EcoHealth Alliance Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement on “Natural Origin” of SARS-CoV-2

EcoHealth Alliance Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement on “Natural Origin” of SARS-CoV-2

Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” was organized by employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.