Biden Admin Suspends Funding to Nonprofit That Funneled Money to China

Published on May 15, 2024

U.S. officials have cut off funding to a nonprofit that funneled government money to a laboratory in China located in the same city where the first COVID-19 cases appeared. EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the nonprofit, “did not adequately monitor” compliance from the Wuhan lab with the terms and conditions of a grant from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Henrietta Brisbon, a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, of which the institute is a part, said in a May 15 letter to EcoHealth President Peter Daszak. “Given the issues regarding the management of EHA’s grant awards and subawards, I have determined that the immediate suspension of EHA is necessary to protect the public interest,” Ms. Brisbon added later....

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