{"id":24446,"date":"2021-10-21T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=24446"},"modified":"2021-10-21T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:30:08","slug":"us-agency-defends-funding-for-research-into-bat-coronaviruses-in-china-and-says-it-could-not-have-caused-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=24446","title":{"rendered":"US agency defends funding for research into bat coronaviruses in China and says it could not have caused Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA leading US government agency has defended previous funding for Chinese research into bat coronaviruses, saying the pathogens in question could not have caused the Covid-19 pandemic.Funds from the National Institutes of Health \u2013 which were given to the US non-profit EcoHealth Alliance for research conducted with the Wuhan Institute of Virology \u2013 have come under increasing scrutiny in light of the theory that the virus could have escaped from the Chinese lab and questions about whether the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3153206\/us-agency-defends-funding-research-bat-coronaviruses-china-and?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA leading US government agency has defended previous funding for Chinese research into bat coronaviruses, saying the pathogens in question could not have caused&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}