EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit organization that collaborated with and funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been under suspicion as a potential origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to receive millions of dollars more in taxpayer-funded grants.
EcoHealth distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds from 2014 to 2019 to the WIV for gain-of-function research on bat-based coronaviruses, potentially leading to the leak of COVID-19 from the Chinese laboratory. In May, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) restored a previously suspended grant to EcoHealth, committing to give the organization $576,000 per year until 2027, according to the NIH.
Additionally, there are 14 active taxpayer-funded grants to EcoHealth recorded on USASpending.gov totaling close to $50 million. Out of the 14 grants in progress, 12 were administered after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020.
Besides the restarted NIH grant, the Department of Defense (DOD) awarded the most recent multi-million dollar grant to EcoHealth in December 2022, which ends in December 2025, according to USASpending.gov. The $3 million grant’s purpose is to…
