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"funded the lab" This can mean anything from fully funding it to giving it some small amount of money and having no real control or transparency, or even fundi
by 99_00 5y ago
"funded the lab"
This can mean anything from fully funding it to giving it some small amount of money and having no real control or transparency, or even funding people from the lab to do research in America. Can you provide a source?
- m4burns 5y agoFor example, this 2019 NIH grant awarded to Ecohealth Alliance Inc.: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9819304 https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9819304 This is part of a series of ongoing projects that have received NIH funding over the last 7 years. Ecohealth, in turn, funds WIV: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4
- benjohnson 5y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/9563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/9563/ Frankly, it was probably good research. If it did escape, it's not a particular China problem - viruses have escaped labs over and over all over the world. I know of one lab here in the US that has a onsite fourteen day quarantine every time you leave the work area - you can imagine that it's not a popular place to work.