68 Tom Watson, Huffington Post, “Exploding Philanthropy: What the Clinton Party Really Meant” (Dec. 6, 2017), huffpost.com/entry/exploding-philanthropy-wh_b_30381
69 Tim Schwab, “Bill Gates’s Charity Paradox,” The Nation (Mar. 17, 2020), thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/
70 Pavan Kulkarni, “Malaria Vaccine Trials in Africa: Dark Saga of Outsourced Clinical Trials Continues,” NEWSCLICK (Mar. 17, 2018), newsclick.in/malaria-vaccine-trials-africa-dark-saga-outsourced-clinical-trials-continues
71 Medical Xpress, “Bill Gates hopeful of AIDS vaccine in 10 years,” (Jun 26, 2015). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-06-bill-gates-aids-vaccine-years.html
72 Charles Piller and Doug Smith, “Unintended Victims of Gates Foundation Generosity,” Los Angeles Times (Dec. 16, 2007), latimes.com/nation/la-na-gates16dec16-story.html
73 The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, Fact Sheet: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Jan. 29, 2003), georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030129-1.html
74 Commencement Address at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, The American Presidency Project (May 18, 1997), presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/commencement-address-morgan-state-university-baltimore-maryland
75 Michael Hamilton, “Taxpayers Funded Clinton Foundation’s Bad AIDS Drugs,” Heartland (Oct. 7, 2016), heartland.org/news-opinion/news/taxpayers-funded-clinton-foundations-bad-aids-drugs
76 McGoey, 154
77 Kristen R.W. Matthews and Vivian Ho, “The Grand Impact of the Gates Foundation: Sixty Billion Dollars and One Famous Person Can Affect the Spending and Research Focus of Public Agencies,” EMBO Rep (2008) 9:409–412, embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/embor.2008.52
78 McGoey, 245
79 Ibid., 243–244
80 Kim Hjelmgaard, “‘A Reckoning Is Near’: America Has a Vast Overseas Military Empire. Does It Still Need It?” USA Today, Feb. 25, 202, https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/world/2021/02/25/us-military-budget-what-can-global-bases-do-vs-covid-cyber-attacks/6419013002/
81 Michael Specter, “The Vaccine,” New Yorker (Jan. 26, 2003), michaelspecter.com/2003/02/thevaccine/
82 Ibid.
83 Ibid.
84 Foundation Funds Major New Collaboration to Accelerate HIV Vaccine Development, BMGF Press Release (2006), gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2006/07/hivaidspr060719
85 Lawrence K. Altman, “Trial for Vaccine Against HIV is Canceled,” New York Times (Jul. 18, 2008), nytimes.com/2008/07/18/health/18vaccine.html
86 Ibid.
87 Ibid.
88 K. A. Smith, “The HIV Vaccine Saga,” Med Immunol (2003) 2(1):1, doi:10.1186/1476-9433-2-1 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC151598/
89 Andrea K. McDaniels, “HIV Vaccine to Be Tested on People,” Baltimore Sun (Oct. 8, 2015), baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-aids-vaccine-20151007-story.html
90 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools, NIH Awards by Location & Organization, report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2020&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=10006808&distr=&rfa=&om=y&pid=&view=state
91 PitchBook, Profectus BioSciences Overview, pitchbook.com/profiles/company/53380-54#overview
92 Ibid.
93 McDaniels
94 Agence France-Presse, “Bill Gates Expects There Could Be an AIDS vaccine in 5 to 10 years,” Business Insider (Jun 26, 2015), businessinsider.com/afp-bill-gates-hopeful-of-aids-vaccine-in-10-years-2015-6
95 Agence France-Presse
96 Julie Steenhuysen, “Trial of Promising HIV Vaccine Halted after Failing to Show Benefit,” Reuters (Feb. 3, 2020), reuters.com/article/us-health-hiv-vaccine/trial-of-promising-hiv-vaccine-halted-after-failing-to-show-benefit-idUSKBN1ZX2QO
97 National Institutes of Health, Budget: Research for the People (Jun 29, 2020), nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/budget
98 Kristian G. Andersen et al., “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” Nat Med 26, 450–452 (Mar. 17, 2020), doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9
99 Charles Calisher et al., “Statement in Support of the Scientists, Public Health Professionals, and Medical Professionals of China Combatting COVID19,” The Lancet, vol. 395 iss.10026 E42–43 (Feb. 19, 2020), doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30418-9
100 James Gorman and Carl Zimmer, “Scientist Opens Up About His Early Email to Fauci on Virus Origins,” New York Times (Jun. 14, 2021), nytimes.com/2021/06/14/science/covid-lab-leak-faucikristian-andersen.html
101 LEOPOLD NIH FOIA, Anthony Fauci Emails, 3187, documentcloud.org/documents/20793561-leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails
102 Ibid., 3197–3198
103 Andersen et al.
104 John Haltiwanger, "Dr. Fauci throws cold water on conspiracy theory that coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab," Insider (Apr. 18, 2020), https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-throws-cold-water-conspiracy-theory-coronavirus-escaped-chinese-lab-2020-4
105 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing (Apr. 17, 2020), https://web.archive.org/web/20210117030731/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-april-17-2020/
106 NIH Awards by Location and Organization, Scripps Research Institute, NIAID Grants, 2020, https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2020&state=&ic=NIAID&fm=&orgid=7375802&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid=#tab2
107 Ibid.
108 NIH Awards by Location and Organization, Columbia University Health Sciences, NIAID Grants, 2020, https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2020&state=&ic=NIAID&fm=&orgid=1833205&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid=&view=state#tab2
109 NIH Awards by Location and Organization, University of Sydney, NIAID Grants, 2020, https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2020&state=&ic=NIAID&fm=&orgid=8178701&distr=&rfa=&om=y&pid=&view=state
110 NIH Awards by Location and Organization, Tulane University of LA, NIAID Grants, 2020, https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2020&state=&ic=NIAID&fm=&orgid=8424601&distr=&rfa=&om=y&pid=&view=state#tab2
111 Jay Greene, “The Billionaire Who Cried Pandemic,” Washington Post (May 2, 2020), washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/02/bill-gates-coronavirus-science/
112 World Economic Forum, Responding with Strength to Pandemic Risk (May 22, 2020), weforum.org/our-impact/the-world-has-entered-a-new-era-of-pandemic-risk-we-re-responding-with-strength/
113 Bill Gates, “What You Need to Know about the COVID19 Vaccine,” Gates Notes (Apr. 20, 2020), gatesnotes.com/Health/What-you-need-to-know-about-the-COVID-19-vaccine?WT.mc_id=20200430165003_COVID-19-vaccine_BG-TW&WT.tsrc=BGTW&linkId=87665522
114 Kambiz Shekdar, PhD, “Dr. Fauci Moves to Cure AIDS,” West View News (Feb. 9, 2021), westviewnews.org/2021/02/09/dr-fauci-moves-to-cure-aids/web-admin/
115 Ibid.
116 “CDC. Pneumocystis pneumonia—Los Angeles,” MMWR 981;30:250--2, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/june_5.htm