Some of the research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is considered the possible source of the coronavirus outbreak, was funded by a grant from the U.S. government while Barack Obama was president.
The lab received grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health totaling $7.1 million, according to public documents compiled by the White Coat Waste Project and shared with London's The Mail on Sunday.
A grant for research on bat coronaviruses received $3.7 million and another that injected viruses into mice's brains received $3.4 million.
The virus originally was believed to have come from a wet market in Wuhan that sold bats....