COVID Origins Controversy Sparks Walkout During NIH Event
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4,300About 27 minutes into his speech, as director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discussed the possibility that NIH-sponsored research contributed to the virus’s origins, dozens of NIH staff — including postdoctoral researchers and union members — walked out in protest.
Prior to the COVID pandemic, the NIH provided funding through grants to EcoHealth Alliance, which in turn collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses. However, both the NIH and independent investigations have stated that the viruses studied under these grants were genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 and could not have caused COVID.