Biden Administration Suspends Funding for Scientist Linked to Wuhan Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has suspended funding for a scientist who has worked closely with the Chinese laboratory located in the same city where the first COVID-19 cases occurred. Peter Daszak, the president of the EcoHealth Alliance organization, was informed by HHS officials on May 21 that he is suspended. HHS officials are also considering debarring Mr. Daszak, or more permanently blocking him from receiving funding. Mr. Daszak was listed as the principal investigator on a grant called “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” He and his group took some of the millions of dollars they received from 2014 through 2019 and passed money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), where scientists were conducting at least one set of experiments that increased the function of bat coronaviruses....