Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the ranking minority member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and two other Republican representatives, are pressing Dr. Anthony Fauci for answers, after newly disclosed documents revealed that U.S. money went to China for coronavirus research. Among the documents, obtained by The Intercept through the Freedom of Information Act, was a previously unpublished grant proposal titled, “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” outlined by Peter Daszak, president of U.S.-based health organization EcoHealth Alliance. The National Institute of Health (NIH) awarded the grant—totaling $3.1 million for five years from 2014 to 2019—to EcoHealth. A portion of the grant money, $599,000, was directed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for research, including altering bat coronaviruses that were deemed likely to infect humans. The disclosure seems to contradict claims by Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and NIH Director …
Internal Documents Raise Questions on US Grants to China: House Lawmakers
September 8, 2021
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