{"id":1927599,"date":"2023-05-09T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calamitous-collaboration-lawmakers-condemn-nih-grant-renewal-for-bat-coronavirus-study-to-wuhan-lab-linked-ecohealth\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:28:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:28:30","slug":"calamitous-collaboration-lawmakers-condemn-nih-grant-renewal-for-bat-coronavirus-study-to-wuhan-lab-linked-ecohealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calamitous-collaboration-lawmakers-condemn-nih-grant-renewal-for-bat-coronavirus-study-to-wuhan-lab-linked-ecohealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers criticize NIH grant renewal for bat coronavirus study at Wuhan lab-linked EcoHealth as a disastrous collaboration."},"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\">34<\/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%2Fcalamitous-collaboration-lawmakers-condemn-nih-grant-renewal-for-bat-coronavirus-study-to-wuhan-lab-linked-ecohealth%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=1927599&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--><p>Lawmakers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-political-director-rick-klein-calls-for-cleansing-pro-trump-movement\/\" title=\"ABC Political Director Rick Klein calls for \u2018cleansing\u2019 pro-Trump movement\">expressed outrage<\/a> over the U.S. National Institutes of Health&#8217;s (NIH) decision to re-activate a controversial federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organization that conducted coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The Chinese facility has come under scrutiny for its work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-investigates-ecohealth-over-possible-taxpayer-double-billing-for-work-in-china\/\" title=\"GOP senator investigates EcoHealth over possible taxpayer \u2018double-billing\u2019 for work in China\">dangerous bat coronaviruses<\/a>. The <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.\">renewed grant<\/a>, amounting to roughly $2.3 million in taxpayer funding, will help EcoHealth Alliance study &#8220;the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calamitous-collaboration-lawmakers-condemn-nih-grant-renewal-for-bat-coronavirus-study-to-wuhan-lab-linked-ecohealth\/\" title=\"Lawmakers criticize NIH grant renewal for bat coronavirus study at Wuhan lab-linked EcoHealth as a disastrous collaboration.\">bat coronavirus spillover emergence<\/a>.&#8221; However, the organization is expressly forbidden from conducting any research in China and is banned from collecting any new samples of bats or humans. <\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the grant, EcoHealth Alliance will receive a total of $4,325,005 over a four-year period via NIH&#8217;s National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases. Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, called the news &#8220;shocking and disappointing.&#8221; EcoHealth Alliance is currently the recipient of 17 active U.S. government grants totaling more than $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns over the reinstated grant, EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak praised the move, saying the funding will help the non-profit conduct work that will &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-battle-continues-over-fda-ban-on-some-vaping-products\/\" title=\"Court Battle Continues Over FDA Ban on Some Vaping Products\">benefit public health<\/a>.&#8221; However, molecular biologist Richard Ebright disagreed, calling the grant reinstatement a &#8220;show of contempt&#8221; from NIH officials toward Congress and the public. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) also expressed alarm at seeing the suspension lifted on the EcoHealth grant, saying it was &#8220;absolutely batty&#8221; to give the organization another penny of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers have condemned the\u00a0U.S. National Institutes of Health\u2019s (NIH\u2019s) decision to re-activate a controversial federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance that was suspended three years ago over concerns of grant term violations. EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit organization\u00a0that for years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic used NIH funds to conduct coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1993,"featured_media":1927600,"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":[14658,20741,4176,4555,8051,16254,5581,18534,3673,16583,13447,4866,7848],"class_list":["post-1927599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-bat","tag-collaboration","tag-coronavirus","tag-criticize","tag-disastrous","tag-ecohealth","tag-grant","tag-lab-linked","tag-lawmakers","tag-nih","tag-renewal","tag-study","tag-wuhan"],"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\/1927599","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\/1993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}