EcoHealth Alliance hasn’t been forthcoming about the way it used Nationwide Institutes of Well being grants for coronavirus analysis in China that will have resulted within the Covid-19 outbreak. But Anthony Fauci on his method to retirement this yr is rewarding the outfit by giving it extra money for . . . coronavirus analysis.
The NIH final month awarded EcoHealth Alliance a $653,392 grant to investigate “the potential for future bat coronavirus emergence in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.” In line with the NIH, the area has been recognized “as a excessive danger for future emergence of novel coronaviruses and the potential website the place SARS-CoV-2 first ‘spilled over’ from bats to folks.”
