A Freedom of Information Act request has produced a report more than 900 pages long detailing U.S. funding of research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the coordinated work that EcoHealth Alliance, the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases did with the Wuhan lab.
One of the NIH grants was for $666,422 to study the risk of bat coronaviruses. The grant’s plan, as written by the recipient, EcoHealth Alliance, outlines a plan to physically work in China on it. “This is a road map to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic,” Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of COVID-19, told The Intercept.
“The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed,” The Intercept added.
All told, the documents show that EcoHealth Alliance received $3.1 million, of which the Wuhan Institute of Virology received $599,000 to “identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans.”
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