By Mark Tapscott | Published at The Epoch Times

Secret royalty payments from drug companies to scientists, researchers, executives, and other employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) jumped following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, according to a new report from a nonprofit government watchdog.

“In 2022 and 2023, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies paid the [NIH] a sum of $710,381,160 in third-party royalties. These were payments healthcare companies made to NIH, its leadership, and scientists to license medical inventions created in federal, taxpayer-funded labs,” OpenTheBooks.com reports, in an analysis made public on June 3 as former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The Epoch Times obtained a copy of the full report.

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