Sunday, July 25, 2021

Rockefeller and Skoll Foundations, former Google CEO Schmidt’s fund have decades-long ties to P. Daszak

 7-22-21  The Covid Commission Planning Group – the foremost effort to launch an “independent” inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 – is supported by organizations that have funded the work of longtime Wuhan Institute of Virology partner EcoHealth Alliance.

Entities funding the task force – the Rockefeller Foundation, Skoll Foundation, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s philanthropic fund – have decades-long ties to Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance.  The effort, headquartered at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, is the brainchild of Schmidt, who has also served as Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet:

The work, which has attracted scant public notice, grew out of a telephone call in October from Eric Schmidt, the philanthropist and former CEO of Google, to Philip D. Zelikow, who was the executive director of the commission that investigated Sept. 11.  Schmidt urged Zelikow to put together a proposal to examine the pandemic, which has caused 600,000 deaths in the United States alone.  “If Congress does establish its own commission, Zelikow said, his group would be willing to share its work.  But if the government does not act, Schmidt said he was confident that he could raise enough money for the group directed by Zelikow to go forward on its own,” a New York Times profile added.   -N. Winters  https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/ecohealth-donors-fund-new-covid-origins-committee/

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June 12, 2018 – EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of animal, environmental, and human health on a global scale, has joined Microsoft’s AI for Earth program.   https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2018/06/ecohealth-alliances-data-analytics-lab-announces-ai-earth-grant-microsoft

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