One of China’s earliest Covid patients was an AMERICAN-funded scientist who worked at lab | Daily Mail Online

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·        Ben Hu, one of the first scientists to be infected, received US federal funding 

·        Research funding came in grants doled out by the National Institutes of Health 

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One of the first Covid patients to fall ill with the virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology had received federal dollars from the US government to fund his research.

Ben Hu, one of the scientists who became ill in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with coronavirus, had been the recipient of government grant money administered by the global nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.

Among the projects that EcoHealth Alliance helped fund was research on infectious diseases in remote parts of the world that could jump from animal hosts to humans.