The project, run by the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, aimed to identify places to monitor, come up with strategies to prevent spillover of the virus and get a jump on creating vaccines and treatments.
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Why The U.S. Government Stopped Funding A Research Project On Bats And Coronaviruses
Corrected: April 28, 2020 at 10:00 PM MDT
An earlier version of this story, as well as an earlier caption, mistakenly said the funding for the research project on bats and coronaviruses was cut on April 25. It was cut on April 24.