HHS Board Never Approved Wuhan Institute of Virology Research Grant

HHS Board Never Approved Wuhan Institute of Virology Research Grant

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the WHO team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, February 3, 2021. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

A board created to oversee research that could make dangerous pathogens more contagious did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a project in Wuhan, China to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses, according to a new report.

The nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance received federal…

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