The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Biden administration has chosen to defund EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based nonprofit group that has been heavily scrutinized for its collaboration with a lab in Wuhan, China, on bat coronavirus experiments following the start of the COVID pandemic that killed millions of people around the world.
An official with HHS sent an email to Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, conveying the decision to suspend the group and proposed debarment from federal government procurement and non-procurement programs for a period that usually is up to three years — but could be longer — effective as of May 14.
“HHS believes there is adequate evidence in the record for this debarment cause and that immediate action is necessary to protect the public interest,” the notification said.
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