• In December, the Department of Defense awarded an approximately $3 million grant to the EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. for the purpose of “reducing the threat of viral spillover from wildlife in the Philippines.”
• Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, EcoHealth Alliance funneled money to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab where some have speculated the virus that causes COVID-19 may have originated.
• Documents released in 2021 outlined the New York-based nonprofit’s work using federal money to fund research into bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab, prompting scrutiny from Republican lawmakers and other experts.

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