Nobel laureates lead revolt after US–China coronavirus grant cancellation
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Rebecca Trager2020-05-28T13:30:00
Nearly 80 US Nobel laureates and 30 scientific organisations criticise sudden termination of joint research with Wuhan Institute of Virology
The US scientific community is rebelling against a recent decision to abruptly cancel – apparently under political pressure – a grant for joint US–China research on bat-borne coronaviruses and their potential to transmit to humans. The award was shared by a health institute in New York and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the centre of unfounded claims that the virus that caused the pandemic escaped from its laboratories.