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EcoHealth funneled US money to risky Wuhan research

EcoHealth Alliance, led by grant entrepreneur Peter Daszak, drew down roughly $17 million a year from US taxpayers via USAID, NIH and the Pentagon and channeled much of it to the WIV for virus hunting and lab experiments, potentially funding in China gain-of-function-type work that might not have been funded in the US during the funding pause.

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Speaker

Matt Ridley

Evidence Quote

something like 17 million dollars a year is is going through the e coli health alliance quite a lot of that ends up at the wuhan institute of virology over the years

Source

311 - Did Sars-cov-2 Escape From A LabMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:00:47 AM

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