[NY Times] Biden Administration Moves to Ban Funding for Wuhan Lab

better late than never I guess

Biden Administration Moves to Ban Funding for Wuhan Lab
A memo said an official suspension of funding to the lab, which has not received any U.S. money since 2020, was necessary to “mitigate any potential public health risk.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/us/politics/funding-ban-wuhan-institute-virology.html

excerpt:

The Biden administration is taking steps to impose a 10-year ban on funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese research laboratory at the center of a heated debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a memo made public by a House subcommittee on Tuesday evening and an official familiar with the issue.

The memo, written by an official in the Department of Health and Human Services, said the institute had failed to comply with repeated requests from the National Institutes of Health for laboratory notebooks and other documents necessary to establish its safety practices.

The N.I.H.’s conclusion that the Wuhan institute “likely violated protocols of the N.I.H. regarding biosafety is undisputed,” wrote the official, whose name was redacted. The memo said that suspension of funding was necessary to “mitigate any potential public health risk,” and that there was “adequate evidence” to initiate “debarment proceedings.”

The institute, which has not received any federal money since 2020, now has 30 days to respond to the notice.
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the memo is at: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Notice-Memo.pdf