Matt Miller Avoids Commenting on USAID Funding of Research that Could Have Triggered Covid Pandemic

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Miller: Anything else on China?

Husseini: Yeah.

Miller: Yeah, who – yeah, go ahead.

Husseini: Thank you. The Sunday Times recently ran a lengthy piece highly sourced to anonymous State Department “investigators” about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and seemed overwhelmingly to finger China as the culprit. The piece made mention of the PREDICT Program but didn’t cite that it was a USAID/State Department program. As I think you’re probably aware, a piece was published in 2015 entitled, “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence,” in Nature Medicine. This was accompanied by a note that it was funded – an addendum, a correction really – that it was funded by USAID and it also noted that it went through the NIH protocol for going through so-called gain of function or gain-of-function research of concern, also called the creation of potentially pandemic pathogens.

Can you confirm for the record that the State – that PREDICT funded that program?

Miller: I’m not familiar with that report. I’ll have to take the question back.

Husseini: You’re not familiar with this report? This has been a major focus of the entire debate about pandemic origins.

Miller: I’m familiar with the issue broadly. I’m not familiar with – excuse – I’m not familiar with the specific news report you’re referring to. I’ll be happy to take it back. Go ahead, Said."

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