Documents: HHS tested Covid-19 vaccines in China (and tried to keep that fact hidden)

Watchdog group Judicial Watch has received 115 pages of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing previously redacted locations of Covid-19 vaccine testing facilities in Shanghai, China.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had claimed the name and location of the testing facilities were protected by the confidential commercial information exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The records were obtained through a September 2021 FOIA lawsuit filed after the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) failed to lawfully respond to a June 7, 2021, FOIA request for all bio-distribution studies and data for the Covid-19 vaccines Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services(No. 1:21-cv-02418)).

The newly unredacted documents reveal the following Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine study locations:

• A document with the filename, “ s_r_IND 19736 0 105 2.6.5 pharmkintabulated-summary” identifies all in vitro metabolic stability studies of ALC-0315 and ALC-0159 (synthetic lipids in the vaccines) were conducted at Medicilon Preclinical Research LLC, a testing facility located in Shanghai, China.

• A document with the filename, “s_r_IND 19736-0-253 Section 2.6.5 pharmkintabulated-summary” identifies that all in vitro metabolic stability studies of ALC-0315 and ALC-0159 were conducted at Medicilon Preclinical Research LLC, a testing facility located in Shanghai, China.

• A document with the filename, “s_pharmkin-tabulated-summary.pdf” notes that all in vitro metabolic stability studies of ALC-0315 and ALC-0159 were conducted at Medicilon Preclinical Research LLC, a testing facility located in “Shanghai, China.”

The document adds that Study 18350 was conducted at a Charles River testing facility in Tranent, UK.

• A document titled “FINAL REPORT” with the filename, “s_r_185350.pdf” and the logo, “Charles River” lists the TESTING FACILITY as “Charles River Laboratories Edinburgh Ltd. Elphinstone Research Centre Tranent, East Lothian EH33 2NE, UK”

The Biden administration’s stonewalling and shell games about the Covid vaccines further undermine public confidence in these controversial drugs. Americans are now going to want to know why did the Biden operation try to hide Covid vaccine ties to China!

Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch President

This is just part of Judicial Watch’s ongoing investigation into the US handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In July 2022, National Institutes of Health (NIH) records revealed an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus taxpayer funded grant tied to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also showed that NIAID officials were concerned about risky and controversial “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology back in 2016.

Additionally, Dr. Anthony Fauci's agency, NIAID, was also concerned about the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance’s lack of compliance with reporting rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China. That's despite the fact that EcoHealth Alliance has been given extensive taxpayer dollars from federal agencies, and partnered with controversial bat coronavirus research with communist Chinese scientists.

Yet, despite all of these revelations, EcoHealth Alliance was awarded a new NIH grant of taxpayer money titled "Analyzing the potential for future bat coronavirus emergence in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam," on Sept. 21.

The new grant provides EcoHealth Alliance with $653,392 covering a period until Aug. 31, 2027, government records show.

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