Trump Cuts U.S. Research on Bat-Human Transmission Due to China Ties

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Trump cuts U.S. research on bat-human virus transmission over China ties

by Sarah Owermohle/Politico

The Trump administration abruptly cut off funding for a project studying how coronaviruses spread from bats to people after reports linked the work to a lab in Wuhan, China, at the center of conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins.

The National Institutes of Health on Friday told EcoHealth Alliance, the study’s sponsor for the past five years, that all future funding was cut. The agency also demanded that the New York-based research nonprofit stop spending the $369,819 remaining from its 2020 grant, according to emails obtained by POLITICO.



“At this time, NIH does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities,” Michael Lauer, the agency’s deputy director for extramural research, wrote in a letter to EcoHealth Alliance officials.

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  1. Has it ever dawned on anyone here that the whole bat thing may be a distraction, the same as Saudi Arabians going to flight school in the time before 9-11?

    COVID-19 = AL-CIA-DA

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