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USAID won’t give details on $4.67 million grant to Wuhan lab collaborator EcoHealth Alliance | Washington Examiner

By Thomas A. Smith

A federal humanitarian agency won’t answer key questions about its nearly $5 million grant to a research organization already under fire for its work at the Wuhan lab possibly linked to COVID-19.

The U.S. Agency for International Development gave EcoHealth Alliance a $4.67 million grant in late 2021, despite serious unanswered questions about EcoHealth’s funding of bat virus research at the Chinese lab. EcoHealth has been granted millions of dollars by the National Institutes of Health but ran into compliance problems prior to the unrelated award from USAID.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

I think it was a different NGO that NIH was funding to see how long it took mosquitos to exsanguinate crated beagle puppies to check a box on some US government form. So don’t blame EcoHealth for that. They do good work, or so they say. There is that covid pandemic thing, of course.