The Biden administration is suspending U.S. funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology over concerns about the lab's security and safety measures regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Michael Shellenberger, president of Environmental Progress, says he was able to confirm the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and identify the first three individuals who contracted the virus.about the institute's failure to provide adequate documentation about their practices. announced the suspension in a Monday letter to the lab, which mentioned efforts to attempt to debar the laboratory in the future.
"This action will ensure the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] does not receive another dollar of federal funding," an HHS spokesperson said, according to Bloomberg.Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021.
Last month, it was revealed that Chinese scientist Ben Hu, one of the three researchers who caught a mysterious illness just before theThe revelation potentially lends credibility to the lab leak theory of COVID-19, as opposed to the theory that the virus began in a wild animal market. One of Hu's U.S.-funded projects studied whether animal viruses could infect humans and cause a pandemic. Another project researched coronaviruses in bats.
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