Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he doesn’t know why the White House asked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to stop funding a project that studied how coronaviruses spread from bats to humans.
“Why was it canceled? It was canceled because the NIH was told to cancel it,” Fauci told the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday. “I don’t know the reason but we were told to stop it,” he said in response to a question during the committee hearing.
