{"id":1927135,"date":"2023-05-09T05:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nih-renews-controversial-grant-to-ecohealth-for-coronavirus-bat-study\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T05:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T09:58:28","slug":"nih-renews-controversial-grant-to-ecohealth-for-coronavirus-bat-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nih-renews-controversial-grant-to-ecohealth-for-coronavirus-bat-study\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH renews grant to EcoHealth for bat study on coronavirus."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnih-renews-controversial-grant-to-ecohealth-for-coronavirus-bat-study%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1927135&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>NIH Reactivates Grant to Study Origins of Deadly Viruses<\/h2>\n<p>The National Institute of Health (NIH) has reactivated a federal grant of $576,290 to EcoHealth Alliance to study the origins of deadly viruses like SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. The grant aims to understand how these viruses originate from wildlife and transfer to humans, which is crucial in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stop-aapi-hate-which-has-ties-to-chinese-state-media-demands-biden-pause-program-targeting-ccp-spies\/\" title=\"\u2018Stop AAPI Hate,\u2019 Which Has Ties To Chinese State Media, Demands Biden \u2018Pause\u2019 Program Targeting CCP Spies\">preventing future outbreaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>NIH Defends the Decision<\/h3>\n<p>NIH officials defend the decision, stating that most emerging human viruses come from wildlife, and coronaviruses, in particular, pose a significant threat to public health and biosecurity globally. The grant will be administered through the NIH\u2019s National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), headed by the recently retired Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<h3>Criticism from Republican Lawmaker<\/h3>\n<p>However, the decision has prompted criticism from Republican lawmaker Rep. Morgan Griffith, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. She described the decision as \u201cabsolutely reckless\u201d and demanded that NIH explain the move.<\/p>\n<h3>Grant Description<\/h3>\n<p>The grant aims to study the evolutionary diversity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/previously-redacted-email-between-peter-daszak-anthony-fauci-suddenly-sees-light-of-day\/\" title=\"Previously Redacted Email Between Peter Daszak, Anthony Fauci Suddenly Sees Light Of Day\">bat-origin coronaviruses<\/a>, including close relatives to SARS, and analyze characteristics of bat coronaviruses that could allow them to emerge. The study will also analyze the patterns of spillover in people living in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-rosanna-arquette-calls-for-an-end-to-independence-day-fireworks\/\" title=\"Actress Rosanna Arquette Calls For An End To Independence Day Fireworks\">high-risk communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>EcoHealth Celebrates the Decision<\/h3>\n<p>EcoHealth Alliance issued a celebratory statement, stating that the NIH decision reflects a reversal of the previous termination and suspension of a grant awarded in 2019. The grant was halted in April 2020 due to concerns about continuing collaborative laboratory research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIH).<\/p>\n<h3>Revisions to the Grant<\/h3>\n<p>The renewed grant will involve collaboration only between EcoHealth Alliance and the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School. The specific aims have been revised in consultation with NIAID and NIH staff, removing all on-the-ground work in China and all recombinant virus culture or infection experiments. EcoHealth has also agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nih-renews-controversial-grant-to-ecohealth-for-coronavirus-bat-study\/\" title=\"NIH renews grant to EcoHealth for bat study on coronavirus.\">additional oversight mechanisms applied<\/a> by NIH.<\/p>\n<h3>Congressional Criticism<\/h3>\n<p>However, congressional critics of NIH\u2019s decade of funding for such research by EcoHealth may not be satisfied with these revisions. They argue that it is reckless to renew the grant given EcoHealth Alliance&#8217;s negligence and breach of contract with the NIH on coronavirus research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Institute of Health (NIH) officials have re-activated a previously terminated $576,290 federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study how outbreaks of deadly viruses like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 originate from wildlife and transfers to humans. The move has prompted one Republican lawmaker to demand that NIH explain the decision she described as \u201cabsolutely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":1927136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[14658,4176,16254,5581,16583,9853,4866],"class_list":["post-1927135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bat","tag-coronavirus","tag-ecohealth","tag-grant","tag-nih","tag-renews","tag-study"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}