U.S. Ramps Up Case Against China on Virus Outbreak, Cover-Up
May 7, 2020—With the key question unresolved about how the COVID-19 virus emerged in Wuhan, China, diplomatic relations between China and the United States as well as other Western governments have ruptured, perhaps permanently.
Funding Pulled
The U.S. government stopped funding a line of research funding that fostered collaboration between U.S. scientists and those in Wuhan, China.
The National Institutes of Health research project received $3.38 million over six years. It was a small part of its overall budget. (For perspective, in 2019, total NIH awards/grants were $28 billion.) But it was still a lot in terms of funding. The project proposed to understand the risk of bat coronavirus that poses "a significant threat to global health and food security." It came in the wake o...
