The claim that “The Obama administration provided a $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China” started in April 2020.
The report started to circulate that the National Institutes of Health had provided the Wuhan Institute of Virology a $3.7 million grant in 2015, while former US President Barack Obama was in office. These reports suggested COVID-19 had escaped or been deliberately released from this laboratory.