June 17, 2026
Chapter 25
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes:
Dr. Fauci’s agency allowed this research to proceed throughout President Obama’s moratorium and made payments to Daszak in 2015 ($630,445), 2016 ($611,090), 2017 ($597,112), 2018 ($581,646), and 2019 ($661,980). From this grant, NIH laundered at least $665,000 through Daszak directly to Shi Zhengli between 2014 and 2019. (pg. 149)
Autism Librarian study notes– $665k from $3,082,273 to Shi Zhengli… “batwoman” who predicted the “leak” and authored gain-of-function research papers with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, through whom the current Secretary of HHS notes Anthony Fauci laundered Wuhan lab grants in partnership with them, as well as the Chinese military and Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chapter 26
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pencils:
“It is not being done for practical purposes… It has produced no actionable results -no results that would, for example, be useful for preventing or responding to a pandemic. … (pg. 151)
It is being for career advancement. The [GOF] experiments are simple to perform. They are highly publishable and highly fundable. Developing an antiviral drug typically has a timeline of 20 years and a probability success of one in 20. In contrast, gain-of-function experiments can take just six months, and the probability of success would be nearly 100%. With gain-of-function, one can move quickly to results, to publication, and then to a next grant. (pg. 152)
Autism Librarian study notes– the current Secretary of HHS also quotes EcoHealth Alliance’s former vice president that gain-of-function research have never prevented or stopped a pandemic, nor contributed to treatment/cures.
Research question: provided the current Secretary of HHS’s review of criticisms regarding gain-of-function research in the context of the Wuhan lab “leak,” is his implication, then, that the financial cost of funding such research and the global economic costs of the Covid-19 “pandemic,” amount to only the retainment of researcher jobs/positions to conduct research that produces “no actionable results,” does not contribute toward treatment/cures, and can only result in costly “leaks”/”pandemics” that can result in ‘injury or death’?
What are the current Secretary of HHS implications, then, for the the NIH’s provision of grants to researchers that, while their studies may have a success rate of 100%, produce “no actionable results,” does not contribute toward treatment/cures, and can result in costly “leaks”/”pandemics” that can result in ‘injury or death’?
Is the current Secretary of HHS implication, then, that the USA government has utilized taxpayer money to fund research that has resulted in “pandemics”/”leaks” that have resulted in ‘injury or death’ to the citizens of the USA, the development of vaccines against a virus developed by gain-of-function-research and those vaccines that have themselves resulted in ‘injury or death’ to citizens of the USA, and there is no contribution from such research toward treatment/cures and is otherwise not actionable?
Chapter 27
The “New York Times Bestselling Author” focuses on biolab accidents, infections, and escapes through history in this next chapter. For my personal study and cataloging, I index them by date below:
- 1918- Spanish flu; actually a bacterial pneumonia from a US military vaccine, which the author notes a 2008 publication by Anthony Fauci supports that deaths from the Spanish flu were from bacterial pneumonia and not from “flu” itself
- 1950s- HIV; author references a London Times article from 1987 regarding a contaminated smallpox vaccine that resulted in HIV infection across the continent of Africa; author notes utilization of bonobo-chimpanzee kidney culture in development of Plotkin and Koprowski’s oral polio vaccine, with HIV virus being originated in the bonobo.
- 1951- Anthrax; death of Fort Detrick microbiologist William Boyles
- 1956- respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); military lab leak from Walter Reed Polio vaccine center; author states RSV results in 100,000 annual infant deaths
- 1957- SV40; Salk and Sabin polio vaccines contaminated with SV40 and in spite of NIH scientist Bernice Eddy’s warnings regarding the contamination, NIH allowed utilization of the contaminated vaccines in the USA; SV40, the author notes, is used to study soft tissue cancers because it can induce tumors in lab rats.
- 1958- Anthrax; Fort Detrick Joel Willard death; buried in a lead casket
- 1959- Pneumonic plague; Fort Detrick researcher Ralph Powell; survived
- 1963- Typhoid; Fort Detrick technician
- 1964- Meningitis; death of Albert Nickel; Camp Detrick
- 1966- Smallpox; lab leak in Birmingham, England; 72 infections
- 1967- Marburg virus; lab leaks in Germany and Serbia; 15% fatality rate from the virus the author states
- 1971- Smallpox; Soviet lab leak near Aral Sea; 3 deaths
- 1975- Borrelia vurgdorferi; military lab leak from former US Army lab on Plum Island, New York, leading to subsequent Lyme disease pandemics in the USA; the author notes affects 476,000 Americans each year
- 1977- H1N1; Spanish flu; leak from laboratory freezer in southern USSR or Northern China
- 1978- Smallpox; lab leak in Birmingham, England; resulting in the death of Janet Parker, fully vaccinated
- 1979- Anthrax; military lab leak from Sverdlovsk, USSR; 60 deaths
- 1980- Anthrax; Fort Detrick plant operator Bernard “Lefty” Kreh previously hospitalized, a 1980 article noted by the author describes how the anthrax strain had “won quiet fame.”
- 2003 (September)- SARS; Singapore lab leak
- 2003- (December)- SARS; Taiwan lab leak
- 2004- SARS-CoV; Chinese Institute of Virology in Beijing
- 2004- Ebola; Russia’s VECTOR State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology; death from needle-stick injury
- 2003-2007- Bird flu, monkeypox, and bugonic plague; accidents and lost shipments from 44 labs across 24 USA states
- 2007- Foot-and-Mouth disease; leak from United Kingdom; hundreds of farm animal deaths
- 2009- Bacillus plague; University of Chicago researcher death
- 2004-2010- 727 CDC indents, including 639 leaks, which many the author states were Biosafety Level 3 incidents
- 2009-2015- Federal Select Agent Program (FSAP) received 749 incident reports
- 2012- Meningitis; San Francisco VA medical center; researcher death
- 2013-2020- 9 incidents of infected lab mice escapes; 6 employee exposures to coronaviruses after 2015; 28 accidents involving genetically engineered coronaviruses; mouse bites; from Ralph Baric’s lab which has received over 186 grants from NIAID
- 2014- SARS; 2,349 vials disappeared from Paris/ Institut Pasteur
- 2014-16- Ebola; leak from CDC lab Kenema, Siera Leone; pandemic in West Africa resulting in 12,500 deaths
- 2014- Ebola; Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana
- 2014- Burkholderia pseudomallei; Colorado State University
- 2015- author references a USA Today investigation discussing security breaches over 100 labs; e.g., UCLA lab had a rats’ nest composed of contaminated biohazard bags and used lab supplies just outside the lab; e.g., Texas A&M University scientist struck himself with a needle and was bitten by a mouse carrying Lyme disease
- 2019- CDC suspends Fort Detrick due to “biosafety lapses”; later to resume in March 2020
- 2019- Explosion; Russian bioweapons lab
- 2019- brucellosis; leak from vaccine laboratory in Lanzhou China; 96 lab workers infected; ten thousand human infections consequently
- 2021- Delta variant of Covid-19; Taipei Taiwan; mouse bite
Autism Librarian study notes– provided the weight of the deaths and injuries indicated in this chapter, I would return to my aforementioned questions for the Secretary of HHS posited after my reading of Chapter 26.
Please also see, if needed:
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian (Chs. 1-3)
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian (Chs. 4-6)
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian -Chs. 7-8
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian -Chs. 9-13
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian -Chs. 14-15
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian -Chs. 16-18
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian -Chs. 19-22
“The Wuhan Cover-Up”: Commentaries by Autism Librarian -Chs. 23-24
I will be creating a comprehension mindmap to share after I finish the book to assist the reader in also studying the book if they would like.
Reference
Kennedy, R. F., Jr. (2023). The Wuhan cover-up: And the terrifying bioweapons arms race. Skyhorse Publishing.