Officials cited EcoHealth Alliance’s failure to properly monitor virus experiments in a Chinese lab before start of COVID pandemic.
The last time we reported on EcoHealth Alliance, the organization behind the infamous bat research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, its president was offering testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. This indicated that thePeter Daszak’s statements included the troubling fact that the Wuhan Institute of Virology freezers contain over 15,000 virus samples from the U.S. government.
Daszak denied that the group ever conducted gain-of-function work, in which the risk posed by a pathogen is potentially increased by techniques such as adding or removing genes. However Republicans and Democrats alike criticized EcoHealth in separate reports for failing or delaying to report high-risk studies.
EcoHealth Alliance has been the target of investigations since the earliest days of the pandemic, with the New York nonprofit facing accusations that its experiments with bat coronaviruses could have contributed to the development and spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus linked to the deaths of millions of people around the globe.
The Biden administration, under acute pressure from House lawmakers, moved on Wednesday to ban funding for a prominent virus-hunting nonprofit group whose work with Chinese scientists had put it at the heart of theories that Covid leaked from a lab.
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