[Continuation] The all-new "US Politics and coronavirus" thread pt. 2

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Originally Posted by bruto (Post 13137074) I may have missed this upthread, but just in case it's new.... White house cancels NIH coronavirus study

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The National Institutes of Health abruptly cut off funding to a long-standing, well-regarded research project on bat coronaviruses only after the White House specifically told it to do so, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The project studied the risk of bat coronaviruses jumping to humans and causing devastating disease. The importance of the work is pretty clear except to our clueless, amateur president.

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The research is run by EcoHealth Alliance Inc., a nonprofit based in New York, but it collaborates with a virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, who works with bat coronaviruses. The WIV became the center of a conspiracy theory that suggested that the pandemic coronavirus originated in or escaped from a lab at the institute. On April 17, a reporter brought up that conspiracy theory and EcoHealth’s grant to President Trump during a press conference. The reporter asked: “Why would the US give a grant like that to China?” Trump responded that “We will end that grant very quickly.”

Two days later Wuhan Institute of Virology was barred from participation in U.S. federal programs. Five days later the entire program was terminated at the direction of the 'White House.'

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