Dr. Anthony Fauci has resisted a 2020 White House directive to dismiss a research grant for a nonprofit organization that has links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but then changed his mind and agreed after he found out that former President Donald Trump made an explicit order for it to be canceled, Fox News informed.
The news comes from an exclusive excerpt from a book that reviews the details of the Covid-19 pandemic response of Trump’s administration.
The debate between Fauci and other officials on the issue of how to respond to the request is the main topic of the upcoming book by the reporters from Washington Post, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta titled “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History.”
The White House pressured the NIH (National Institutes of Health) to curtail funds for a certain study that focused on how coronaviruses jump to humans from infected bats after reports unveiled a possible link of the research to the lab leak theory. The sponsor of the research, the nonprofit organization EcoHealth Alliance, was requested not to spend the $369,819 balance to the 2020 grant.
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