The Biden administration has formally barred U.S. funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and signaled it would cut off the lab permanently.
The Department of Health and Human Services has determined the lab is “not compliant with federal regulations and is not presently responsible,” according to a Monday memo first obtained by Bloomberg News.
HHS decided to cut off the Wuhan lab after a lengthy review of its procedures and China’s failure to turn over key information to the National Institutes of Health. “It’s past time that the Biden administration made this decision, but they deserve no credit for finally doing what the evidence and facts demanded. It is outrageous that it took them so long. HHS must now consider a similar debarment for EcoHealth Alliance,” committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington Republican, said with key subcommittee leaders.
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