“The winner in all of this is the virus”
The NIH has reinstated a research organization’s multimillion-dollar grant to study how coronaviruses move from bats to people, which it cancelled in a controversial move earlier this year. But Peter Daszak, head of the small non-profit organization — EcoHealth Alliance in New York City — says the funding can’t be used unless the organization meets what he calls absurd, politically motivated conditions. “We’re not a political organization. We’re just trying to do good work to prevent pandemics,” says Daszak. “We estimate that every single day, somebody in China or in southeast Asia gets infected with a new bat coronavirus. Right now, somebody is walking around, and they might be developing the first signs of a cough from the next COVID.”Nature | 5 min read
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