Time to revisit the "The Harvard Connection" by @AshleyRindsberg

It involves Fauci, the dean of Harvard medicine, $115 million pledge and a CCP-affiliated company's efforts to establish back-channel communications between Fauci and China.

On February 2, 2020, the day after Fauci's now infamous secret teleconference, George Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School, suddenly reached out to Fauci for “whatever information you are willing to share on your current efforts to coordinate a response.”

Daley did so, remarkably, at the request of Jack Xia, the CEO of China’s then-real estate giant, Evergrande.

Harvard's Daley told Fauci that Xia was "acting on behalf of Dr Zhong Nanshan, China’s key point person on the coronavirus outbreak."

In other words, the CCP.

At this same time, Fauci was in the midst of constructing the Natural Origin narrative that would be foisted on the country for the next two years.

This narrative, by definition, was used to help absolve the CCP of responsibility of a leak from the Wuhan Institute's lab

Daley told Fauci a conference call with Xia had been scheduled for the next morning on Feb 3rd. It's unknown if this call took place.

This same day, Fauci, Peter Daszak, Kristian Andersen, and other scientists attended a meeting organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to “help determine the origins” of the COVID-19 virus.

Fauci and his group pushed a Natural Origin narrative despite Andersen having told Fauci's teleconference group just two days before that he was “60 to 70 percent” sure the virus came from a laboratory.

Eddie Holmes told Fauci's group that he was “80 percent sure the virus came out of a lab.”

Despite these statements, made privately just days earlier, Andersen told NASEM a lab leak theory was a "conspiracy" theory in a Feb 4, 2020 letter.

Although it's not known if Fauci spoke with Xia on February 3rd, we do know that he spoke with the head of the Chinese CDC, Gau Fu - aka George Gao, “to exchange information on the epidemic” on February 4th.

The same day as Fauci's call with Gao, and two days after Harvard's Daley emailed Fauci on Evergrande's Xia's (and the CCP's) behalf, Evergrande suddenly pledged a $115mm donation to Harvard Medical School on February 4, 2020.

Fauci would go on to promote the Natural Origin narrative - including doing so at the end of a Trump press conference on April 17, 2020 where Fauci promoted Andersen's Proximal Origin paper while pretending not to know the authors personally.

If you find this story to be odd, you're not the only one.

China had official channels for communication. Why the need for a side channel into Fauci?

Was China worried over a possible early determination of a lab leak by the US that would implicate them for the Covid pandemic?

Why did Harvard feel compelled to facilitate contact between what was effectively the CCP and Fauci? Why did Fauci accept Harvard's request?

And why the near-perfect timing of a $115 million pledge for a donation from CCP's Evergrande to Harvard? A company that would shortly be headed for bankruptcy.

What did happen was that Fauci was able to engage in at least one discussion with representatives of the CCP — outside of official diplomatic channels.

What, exactly, was discussed on that call with China? And did Fauci discuss or share his creation of the fabricated narrative of a Natural Origin with them? China would have been desperate to know what the early "unofficial" take from the US would be.

We know that Eddie Holmes, who was part of Fauci's teleconference and a co-author of Proximal Origin, inadvertently disclosed in a speech that he delayed releasing vital genomic data in the crucial early days of the Covid outbreak due to “pressure” from the Chinese Communist Party.

We also know that Holmes is/was a close associate of the head of the Chinese CDC, Gao Fu. The same man that Fauci spoke with on Feb 4, 2020.

We also know that Francis Collins expressed his concerns in internal emails over upsetting relations with China's government.

Lots of questions. Some obvious likely conclusions.

The Harvard Connection is detailed in a very good May 26, 2022 article by @AshleyRindsberg

Read the full story here: https://t.co/ouegBfvO8a

cc: @BillAckman