Fauci Defends Funding Group That's Collaborated With Wuhan Facility at Center of Lab Leak TheoryAnthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), defended his agency's decision of awarding millions of dollars to an organization that has funded risky virus research in Wuhan.
The New York-based nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, received roughly $3 million in grants from the NIAID in late September, the largest annual amount the agency has awarded the group, despite scrutiny over EcoHealth's partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the facility that many believe may have started the pandemic.
“If something is peer-reviewed, gets a high recommendation for funding, you can’t arbitrarily decide, ‘I just don’t want to fund it' because people don't like them," Fauci said in an Oct. 4 virtual webinar hosted by the University of South California's Center for Health Journalism. “If they ever brought that to court, they could sue us and win that in a microsecond. So you’ve got to be careful.”...
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