NIH Terminates Virus Research Grant That Focused on Wuhan

NIH has terminated a grant that in part funded coronavirus research in bats in China’s Wuhan, the grant recipient known as the EcoHealth Alliance said in a statement.

• “The research that the National Institutes of Health terminated aimed to analyze the risk of coronavirus emergence and help in designing vaccines and drugs to protect us from COVID-19 and other coronavirus threats,” the alliance’s statement says
• Research cut was first reported by Politico

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