Posted on 05/09/2023 6:04:08 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Three years after then-President Donald Trump pressured the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to suspend a research grant to a U.S. group studying bat coronaviruses with partners in China, the agency has restarted the award.
The new 4-year grant is a stripped-down version of the original grant to the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit research organization in New York City, providing $576,000 per year. That 2014 award included funding for controversial experiments that mixed parts of different bat viruses related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the coronavirus that sparked a global outbreak in 2002–04, and included a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The new award omits those studies, and also imposes extensive new accounting rules on EcoHealth, which drew criticism from government auditors for its bookkeeping practices.
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I believe it. How about you?
It has the Anthony Fauci seal of approval. There’s NO WAY anything could go wrong!
These folks should be dangling from a tree!
These folks should be dangling from a tree!
NIH Restarts Jurassic Park because it’s safe now.
Congress should pass a criminal statue that says release of a laboratory virus accidentally comes with a mandatory 20 year Federal prison sentance.
I’d like to see an in-depth article on gain of function funding politics. As I understand it, Obama said not in this country, so NIH moved the work to less secure foreign countries. Now I read that Trump said 3 years ago no more funding in foreign countries either. The NIH keeps this alive no matter what. Now Biden is providing the official go ahead.
Thank goodness we have a President, who is as sharp as tack, and a National Institute for Health, that is dedicated to maintaining our wellbeing. (s.)
Marrying up Ebola to the common cold should ensure the use of mail-in ballots. Only the evil party would do such a thing.
Sure they have, and why not! A man with a potato for a brain runs the Nation, and second in line is a cackling hen...
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