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NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’ and might break rules, critics say

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A now canceled grant from the National Institutes of Health allowed researchers associated with the EcoHealth Alliance to gather samples from bats, which can carry viruses that jump to other animals and humans.

By Meredith WadmanScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The research community is reacting with alarm and anger to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) abrupt and unusual termination of a grant supporting research in China on how coronaviruses—such as the one causing the current pandemic—move from bats to humans.The agency axed the grant last week, after conservative U.S.

politicians and media repeatedly suggested—without evidence—that the pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

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