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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes. EcoHealth received $3.7m from the NIH, $600,000 of which was given to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/57932699 Full grant document: https://theintercept.com/document/2021/09/08/understanding-the-risk-of-bat-coronavirus-emergence/

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for posting that! The grant was interesting. Specific aims page is down on page 107 to save others who want to read it some time.

One of their main hypotheses they wanted to test was that covid viruses they found in animals in the Wuhan market would have greater fitness than those found in wild animals due to spillover between multiple species and other differences in the environment, which in light of current events seems a reasonable hypothesis.