{"id":970807,"date":"2023-01-26T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=420259"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:40:19","slug":"nih-urged-to-consider-banning-wuhan-institute-of-virology-from-future-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/26\/nih-urged-to-consider-banning-wuhan-institute-of-virology-from-future-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Urged to Consider Banning Wuhan Institute of Virology From Future Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Institutes of Health<\/u> failed to effectively monitor a controversial grant that was used to study coronaviruses in China, according to a lengthy report released this week from the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n
The report takes to task both the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit that received nearly $8 million in grant money from the NIH between May 2014 and July 2021, some of which it used to help fund coronavirus research at China\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology. EcoHealth Alliance\u2019s work with the Wuhan lab<\/a> has plunged it into the center of the stormy debate over the origin of Covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n