Biden Admin Suspends Funding to Nonprofit That Funneled Money to Chinese Lab

EcoHealth Alliance’s access to American taxpayer money has been cut off, at least for now.

Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, testifies before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Washington on May 1, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

U.S. officials have cut off funding to a nonprofit that funneled government money to a laboratory in China located in the same city where the first COVID-19 cases appeared.

EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the nonprofit, “did not adequately monitor” compliance from the Wuhan lab with the terms and conditions of a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to a May 15 letter to EcoHealth President Peter Daszak from Henrietta Brisbon, a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH’s parent agency.