The White House has revoked $3.7 million in funding for a study on bat-to-human coronavirus transmission — despite evidence that is how COVID-19 first spread
Photo: Getty Images Setting aside the bigger picture of how the United States should handle its relationship with China, the president seems to possess an instinct that drives him to take the exact-wrong approach relative to his short-term goals regarding Beijing.
Despite evidence that COVID-19 may have jumped from bats to humans — with a possible layover in the immune systems of pangolins — Politico reports that President Trump is now cutting funding for researchers determining how bat coronaviruses can infect humans because the project is linked to a lab in Wuhan, China.
The project, which received $3.7 million in federal grants over five years, first came to the political forefront on April 17, when a Newsmax reporter asked Trump if any of its funding had been routed to Chinese labs. “We will end that grant very quickly,” Trump responded. “It was granted quite awhile ago. Who was president then, I wonder?” While the funding was first approved under President Obama, the NIH renewed it in July of last year.
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