Report: US Funded Dangerous Coronavirus Research In Wuhan Shortly Before COVID-19 Outbreak


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Newly uncovered documents show that the U.S. government actively funded dangerous research in Wuhan, China, involving coronaviruses leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Intercept reported. The report comes weeks after a classified report by U.S. intelligence agencies allegedly yielded “inconclusive” results about the origins of COVID-19 due to a lack of cooperation from communist China. The documents show that the National Institutes of Health issued millions of dollars to the EcoHealth Alliance designated for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” The grant, which acknowledged that researchers in the field were at the “highest risk of exposure to SARS...