<p>The Department of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-and-human-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health and Human Services</a> (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 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> pandemic that killed millions of people around the world.</p>
<p>An official with HHS <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tab-1-EHA-SUSP4D-Notice_5.15.2024_signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent an email</a> 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.</p>
<p>&#8220;HHS believes there is adequate evidence in the record for this debarment cause and that immediate action is necessary to protect the public interest,&#8221; the notification said.</p>
<p>The GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which released the letter and an HHS action referral <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tab-2-EHA-SUSP4D-ARM_05.15.2024_signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a>, announced that the agency cited evidence from its May 1 interim <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024.05.01-SSCP-Report_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staff report</a> looking at evidence surrounding EcoHealth Alliance&#8217;s research activities just before Daszak <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-ecohealth-alliance-should-be-criminally-investigated-formally-debarred/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave testimony</a> for the investigation.</p>
<p>&#8220;EcoHealth &amp; Dr. Daszak facilitated gain-of-function research in China without proper oversight &amp; willingly violated multiple requirements of NIH [the National Institutes of Health] grants. They should never again receive a single penny from the U.S. taxpayer,&#8221; the panel <a href="https://twitter.com/COVIDSelect/status/1790762370823847999" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X.</p>
<p>Daszak <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1037517/peter-daszak-denies-ecohealth-violated-nih-rules-and-defends-work-with-wuhan-lab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long denied</a> that EcoHealth violated NIH rules, and former government officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, pushed back on claims that the U.S. agency funded gain-of-function research &#8212; in which viruses are manipulated to become more dangerous. The Trump administration <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/29/847948272/why-the-u-s-government-stopped-funding-a-research-project-on-bats-and-coronaviru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled funding</a> for EcoHealth, but NIH <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01566-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> a grant — with restrictions — last year.</p>
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<p>&#8220;EcoHealth Alliance is disappointed by HHS&#8217; decision today and we will be contesting the proposed debarment,&#8221; an EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson told The Daily Wire in an email. &#8220;We disagree strongly with the decision and will present evidence to refute each of these allegations and to show that NIH&#8217;s continued support of EcoHealth Alliance is in the public interest.&#8221;</p>
<p>More than <a href="https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths?n=o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7 million people</a> diagnosed with COVID-19 have died worldwide. The origin of the pandemic became a topic of fierce debate, with two leading theories being there was a natural emergence or a lab leak. Beijing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html">denied being to blame</a>, but <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/classified-docs-credibly-suggest-covid-originated-wuhan-lab-leak-covered-up-ccp-house-rep" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department records suggest</a> COVID emerged from a &#8220;lab-related accident&#8221; and the Chinese Communist Party tried to cover it up.</p>
<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trying-to-cover-your-a-rand-paul-charges-fauci-with-attempting-to-change-definition-of-gain-of-function-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driven an inquiry</a> in the upper chamber into Fauci and the pandemic&#8217;s origins, <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1790803637691671018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the HHS decision by posting to X, &#8220;Finally, the Biden Admin. agrees to ban Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, who financed the gain-of-function research in Wuhan, from getting any more taxpayer $.&#8221;</p>
<p>Coronavirus Pandemic Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) said his panel will continue to investigate EcoHealth and the origins of COVID-19, including efforts to secure outstanding documents from Daszak and his team to answer questions from congressional investigators.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will hold EcoHealth accountable for any waste, fraud, and abuse and are committed to uncovering any illegal activity, including lying to Congress, NIH, or the Inspector General,&#8221; Wenstrup <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/breaking-hhs-suspends-funding-and-proposes-formal-debarment-of-ecohealth-alliance-cites-evidence-from-covid-select-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added in a statement</a>.</p>

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