- “The NIH-sponsored collaboration with EcoHealth and WIV, ‘Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,’ drew understandable scrutiny following the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, within the vicinity of the lab where the experiments enhancing coronaviruses was occurring,” Ernst wrote.
- Yet even after the COVID outbreak, and despite EcoHealth breaking rules including failing to properly report its subcontracts and allegedly not notifying NIH of troubling test results, NIH has given EcoHealth more awards.
- On Tuesday, Ernst called the situation “totally batty.”
