Was it Eco-Health, NIH or Wuhan and the Money that Killed so Many?

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The US-based, non-profit research group EcoHealth Alliance in 2014 received a US$3.1 million, five-year NIH grant to understand the risk of a novel bat virus spilling into humans in China, as had happened in the Sars outbreak in 2002. "It would have been irresponsible of us if we did not investigate the bat viruses and the serology to see who might have been infected in China," Fauci, whose institute was responsible for the grant, testified at a congressional hearing in May. Research was undertaken in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, with a budget of between US$120,000 and US$150,000…

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