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Emails Show NIH Officials Flagged Chinese Military Doctor Later Linked to Early COVID Vaccine Patent

Weeks before a Chinese military doctor applied for a patent on a COVID-19 vaccine in February 2020, federal bureaucrats in the United States were reviewing taxpayer-funded grants to China and flagged the doctor as a recipient. 

Dr. Zhou Yusen, who held the rank of major general, was a researcher working under the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Science, which is associated with the People’s Liberation Army, according to emails obtained by the Oversight Project, a watchdog group. Zhou, who later died under unusual circumstances, was mentioned in emails between bureaucrats with the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

While the institutes awarded grants to China, Dr. Anthony Fauci was the director of the NIAID. Recently, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released newly declassified documents detailing how Fauci and other officials with the NIH and NIAID worked with an intelligence agency to prompt certain political narratives about COVID-19 and its origins. 

Ping Chen, an NIH researcher, informed colleagues on Feb. 3, 2020 about Zhou.

“The grants have the same Chinese collaborator, Dr. Zhou, Yusen, who is a researcher in the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, an institute under the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS),” Chen wrote. The Academy of Military Medical Sciences worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Chen added, “Dr. Zhou’s expertise and resources in China include his skills in developing animal models for viruses, such as Zika, and then successfully applying the models........

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