"The $3.7M in grant funding was an aggregate total divided among several different institutions; it was disbursed between 2014 and 2019 (under both the Obama and Trump administrations); and it was not a form of grant that had been prohibited in 2014."
"the referenced $3.7 million comprised a series of multiple grants for coronavirus research issued by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases over the course of several years to different entities, of which the Wuhan Institute of Virology was just one:"
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you probably don't know it but this isn't the first coronavirus that came from China.
The claims that the Obama administration funded coronavirus research may be referring to a grant provided by the National Institutes of Health to EcoHealth Alliance, a research group that tracks emerging diseases. The grant is directly overseen by the NIH, and it continued under the Trump administration until it was recently rescinded.
The EcoHealth Alliance is a nongovernmental research group that focuses on emerging diseases caused by human and animal interactions. The National Institutes of Health has consistently funded the organization for projects since at least 2002.
In 2014, the NIH approved a grant to EcoHealth Alliance designated for research into “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” The project involved collaborating with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study coronaviruses in bats and the risk of potential transfer to humans.
The original five-year grant was reapproved by the Trump administration in July 2019. In total, $3,378,896 in NIH funding was directed from the government to the project.
The project, which was established “to understand what factors allow coronaviruses, including close relatives to SARS, to evolve and jump into the human population,” yielded 20 scientific reports on how zoonotic diseases may transfer from bats to humans.
ABunchOfBeans on June 15th, 2020 at 05:18 UTC »
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spoec on June 15th, 2020 at 06:19 UTC »
"The $3.7M in grant funding was an aggregate total divided among several different institutions; it was disbursed between 2014 and 2019 (under both the Obama and Trump administrations); and it was not a form of grant that had been prohibited in 2014."
"the referenced $3.7 million comprised a series of multiple grants for coronavirus research issued by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases over the course of several years to different entities, of which the Wuhan Institute of Virology was just one:"
snopes.comyou probably don't know it but this isn't the first coronavirus that came from China.
Aiden2817 on June 15th, 2020 at 09:02 UTC »