A newly released Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has revealed that U.S. government agencies provided significant funding to Ben Hu, a Wuhan-based scientist now identified as COVID-19’s “Patient Zero.” Leaked U.S. intelligence confirms Hu was the first person to fall ill at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) before the pandemic officially began.

U.S. Taxpayer Funds Tied To Wuhan Lab Experiments

Documents obtained by WCW through a FOIA lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) confirm that Hu was conducting gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses using U.S. taxpayer funds. These grants were issued through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), formerly led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

According to federal accounting records, over $41 million was allocated to projects involving Hu and his team. Due to reporting loopholes and conflicting data from EcoHealth Alliance, the exact portion of these funds directed specifically to Hu remains unclear. However, the funding was scheduled to continue until 2024, had it not been terminated in early 2020 following WCW’s revelations.

Let me get this straight. Fauci’s NIAID and @USAID sent over $40M in U.S. taxpayer “support” to a scientist in Wuhan who was working on “bat coronavirus emergence” research, who also became “patient zero” for COVID-19?

And the completion date for that funding was … in 2019???… pic.twitter.com/FJF92pcmp1

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) February 3, 2025

Newly Leaked Intelligence Identifies Sick Wuhan Lab Scientists

The identity of Wuhan Institute staff members who reportedly fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019 had been withheld by both the U.S. and Chinese governments—until now. A U.S. intelligence source has confirmed with “100% certainty” that three WIV researchers, Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu, were hospitalized with severe illness in late 2019.

This aligns with earlier reports from January 2021, in which the U.S. State Department disclosed that Wuhan lab staffers involved in coronavirus experiments developed COVID-like symptoms before the virus was officially recognized. Additional accounts indicated that one of the researchers’ wives died in December 2019 from a similar illness.

Dangerous Research Conducted Without Adequate Protection

A 2017 video from Chinese state-run media shows Hu and fellow virologist Shi Zhengli—known as “Bat Woman” for her work on bat viruses—handling bats and lab specimens without sufficient protective gear. Intelligence findings suggest that Hu led Wuhan’s gain-of-function research on SARS-like coronaviruses using humanized mice to enhance the viruses’ transmissibility.

Federal Funding for Wuhan Lab Experiments Exposed

The WCW investigation highlights how U.S. taxpayer dollars funded risky virus research at WIV, including:

• The collection of wild coronaviruses from bats in remote Chinese caves.
• The transportation of these viruses to a laboratory in Wuhan.
• Gain-of-function experiments designed to make these viruses more infectious to humans.
• The subsequent infection of Wuhan lab staffers, followed by a cover-up of their medical records and identities.

The newly uncovered federal grants reveal that NIAID and USAID funded Hu’s work at WIV despite long-standing concerns over biosafety and transparency. The grants were ultimately revoked after WCW intervened in 2020.

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The Biden administration’s top medical adviser on the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday said that the US is actively looking at ways to boost aid to India as it grapples with the surging coronavirus cases.

Dr.Fauci told ABC’s “This Week” show that several measures were being considered, including sending over oxygen supplies, COVID-19 test kits, drug treatments and personal protective equipment.

The outbreak in India adds to the pressure on US President Joe Biden to provide vaccines and aid to other countries. Biden has said that the US won’t begin doing so until it has enough supplies at home.

Fauci said Sunday that the US would review how to help increase India”s vaccine supply, such as by sending them doses or helping them “to essentially make vaccines themselves.”

He said, “Bottom line, it’s a terrible situation that’s going on in India and other lower middle-income countries, and there is more we can do.”

Earlier, Serum Institute of  India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla had taken to Twitter on April 16 and requested United States President Joe Biden to lift the embargo of raw material exports from the US. Appealing to POTUS on behalf of the vaccine industry apart from the US, Poonawalla had said that by lifting the embargo, the vaccine production amid the COVID-19 pandemic could be “ramp[ed] up”. The SII CEO had also said that the Biden administration already has the details required to make the move which can contribute to better the situation amid the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic which has rocked several nations, months after it first began.

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The United States has virtually bought out the entire inventory of Gilead Sciences’ Remdesivir, which is the first approved drug for the treatment of coronavirus infection. This means that no other country in the world will have access to this drug for the next three months. This has alarmed experts all over the world us this unilateral decision by the USA has outmaneuvered every other country’s access to the medical supplies.

Notably, the first 140,000 doses of this drug have already been sold out for drug trials. Following this, the Trump government has now bought more than 500,000 doses is which amounts to the total inventory of Gilead Sciences thus far.

As this deal was announced, one fact that became clear was that the number of cases in the United States has spiralled out of control.

Speaking about this, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told that the US was sliding backwards. “We are going in the wrong direction,” said Fauci. Last week the US saw a new daily record of 40,000 new coronavirus cases in one day. “I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around,” he said. He could not provide an estimated death toll, but said: “It is going to be very disturbing, I guarantee you that.”

Close to 2.5 million confirmed cases have been recorded in the United States, and this move has only tightened the ‘America first’ attitude that has been recklessly adopted by the Trump government.

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