NIH Awards New Grant To U.S. Org At Center Of COVID Lab Scandal
View Source | October 4, 2022 3:29 pm
- The main U.S.-based scientific organization at the center of the controversy over the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic has won a new grant from the National Institutes of Health for risky bat coronavirus surveillance research, despite losing a previous award for failing to provide records essential to an investigation into that origin.
- The grant was awarded September 21 to EcoHealth Alliance, helmed by Peter Daszak, and is titled “Analyzing the potential for future bat coronavirus emergence in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.”
- The new grant comes despite an open congressional investigation into the organization, which has two other ongoing NIH grants and a third in negotiation.
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