Thanks for posting that! The grant was interesting. Specific aims page is down on page 107 to save others who want to read it some time.
One of their main hypotheses they wanted to test
was that covid viruses they found in animals in the Wuhan market would have greater fitness than those found in wild animals due to spillover between multiple species and other differences in the environment, which in light of current events seems a reasonable hypothesis.
So does that mean, in 2014 we gave China’s Wuhan lab a little more than half a mil and China’s inability/poor practices caused the outbreak as they were actively working on COVID?
Yes. EcoHealth received $3.7m from the NIH, $600,000 of which was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/57932699
Full grant document: https://theintercept.com/document/2021/09/08/understanding-the-risk-of-bat-coronavirus-emergence/
Thanks for posting that! The grant was interesting. Specific aims page is down on page 107 to save others who want to read it some time.
One of their main hypotheses they wanted to test was that covid viruses they found in animals in the Wuhan market would have greater fitness than those found in wild animals due to spillover between multiple species and other differences in the environment, which in light of current events seems a reasonable hypothesis.
So does that mean, in 2014 we gave China’s Wuhan lab a little more than half a mil and China’s inability/poor practices caused the outbreak as they were actively working on COVID?