The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has cut off all funding and “formally debarred” EcoHealth Alliance Inc. and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, after finding evidence that it facilitated gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China, without proper oversight and violated statutes in its National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.
Evidence was gathered over an eight-month investigation by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in a Friday news release.
A letter from HHS states that a five-year “period of debarment for Dr. Daszak is necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests,” and confirms that EcoHealth terminated his employment on January 6 of this year.
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