{"id":81990,"date":"2025-12-06T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81990"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:00:35","slug":"government-covid-advisors-did-not-admit-200m-they-got-in-wellcome-trust-grants-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/06\/government-covid-advisors-did-not-admit-200m-they-got-in-wellcome-trust-grants-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Covid advisors did not admit \u00a3200m they got in Wellcome Trust grants, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1RQNcy.img?w=534&amp;h=441&amp;m=6&amp;x=304&amp;y=103&amp;s=115&amp;d=115\" alt=\"One grant recipient was Professor Neil Ferguson, one of the biggest advocates for vaccines and whose advice to Prime Minister Boris Johnson led to the UK lockdown in March 2020\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientific advisors to the Government during the Covid pandemic failed to reveal they received over \u00a3200million in grants from one of the world&#8217;s biggest pharmaceutical investors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/government-covid-advisors-did-not-admit-200m-they-got-in-wellcome-trust-grants-report-says\/ar-AA1RQoT0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=8b799c951128451d91d2c60e80253dc2&amp;ei=10\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Scientific advisors to the Government during the Covid pandemic failed to reveal they received over \u00a3200million in grants from one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/corona-covid-19.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81991,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81990\/revisions\/81991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}