The United States government finally pulled funding from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – the same lab where the COVID-19 virus likely originated.
The Department of Health and Human Services notified the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) of the suspension on Monday, aiming to permanently cut the lab off after a review confirmed that the lab is not “compliant with federal regulations.”
“Penalizing the lab is the most drastic action the U.S. has taken so far over its failure to share documentation on biosafety practices amid ongoing investigations into Covid-19’s origins,” Bloomberg stated. “The institute has become a flashpoint in discussions of how the pandemic, which has killed some 7 million people, started, with some, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, suspecting it could have originated at the facility.”
The question many are asking is, why is this happening just now?
In June, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report which identified several safety and security issues at the Wuhan lab that could have contributed to a leak.
Last January, an 18-month federal audit revealed oversight issues by the National Institute of Health (NIH) misreporting $90,000 in expenses, according to Science.com.
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“NIH had concluded that these studies did not qualify as “gain-of-function” research that requires a special HHS review because the hybrid viruses weren’t expected to be more dangerous to mammals than the starting viruses,” the article stated. “But it stipulated that EcoHealth should “immediately” report any unexpected growth of the hybrid viruses to NIH.”
The Obama administration’s “offshore banked gain-of-function research,” at the Wuhan lab included “projects to make bat covid more transmissible to humans,” before the human-infecting bat coronavirus was released in the same town shortly after. The US then put the same man involved in said research, Peter Daszak, in charge of the highly conflicted lab-leak denial.
In 2014, the NIH awarded EcoHealth Alliance and Daszark a $3.7 million grant for “understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence.” The Wuhan lab received a sub-award of the million-dollar grant.
According to ZeroHedge, the first $666,000 was paid in June 2014 with similar annual payments through May 2019 under the “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” project.
Bloomberg further reported: “The decision to defund the lab was done independently of the U.S. intelligence community.”
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