I finally got around to reading that (long) Vanity Fair article on the origins of COVID-19 and DC corruption—and it's a doozy.

Katherine Eban's deep dive into the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance and its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a masterpiece of investigative journalism and reveals several bombshells about the risky research on coronaviruses the federal government was funding.

Eban's reporting draws on some 100,000 leaked documents that show why the organizations created to defend humans from viruses now find themselves as the primary suspects of COVID's origins—in large part because of their secrecy and political machinations.

Importantly, Eban's reporting leaves little doubt that the federal government was, in fact, funding gain-of-function research. Indeed, Peter Daszak, the British zoologist who heads EcoHealth, admits as much in his July 2016 response to an NIH program officer who informed him his request for funding—which would be "conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology"—had been approved.

"This is terrific!" Daszak responded in an email to NIH. "We are very happy to hear that our Gain of Function research funding pause has been lifted."

This is important, because Dr. Anthony Fauci has steadfastly denied that NIH funded gain-of-function research—prohibited at the time—which is defined by the Department of Health and Human Services as experimentation "that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease" to "enable assessment of the pandemic potential of emerging infectious agents."