| FOIA Case
Targets Wuhan Links of UN WHO's
Daszak, 300 Pages Per Month Were
Ordered
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 7 – A FOIA case was filed
by the publisher of The
Intercept, First Look
Institute, against the
National Institutes of Health,
for records "demonstrative of
funding to provided to
virologist Dr. Peter Daszak to
study the emergence of
zoonotice diseases such as
Sars-CoV-2, the virus
responsible for the COVID-19
pandemic."
On August 30 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Gregory H. Woods held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
The
complaint states that Daszak
"is the sole U.S. scientist on
the World Health Organization
(WHO) team investigating the
orders of the virus... Daszak
has deep, longstanding ties to
the Wuhan Institute of
Virology, a Chinese research
facility central to questions
about the origin of the
pandemic."
Judge
Woods ordered the production
of 300 pages per month, with a
status letter due on December
1.
Inner City Press
said it would follow the case,
and it has. The joint December
1 letter says the pool of
communications is down from
11,000 pages to 2,100. But,
plaintiffs say, NIH will go no
further.
NIH, for
its part, says it will be
finished producing records in
seven months.
The case is First
Look Institute, Inc. et al v.
National Institutes of Health,
21-cv-4024 (Woods)
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