An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses.
US Grant to Wuhan Lab to Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized by HHS Review Board: NIH
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The P4 laboratory building at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is shown in Wuhan, China, on May 13, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

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