It has been just reported that the lab in Wuhan has fallen – WCW has just ended NIH funding eligibility. Check out the latest reports about the matter below.
Wuhan lab is in the news
It has been reported that after a three-year-long campaign by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) to defund the Wuhan lab, which is known for torturing animals and possibly causing the pandemic, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now disqualified it from receiving any taxpayer funding for animal testing.
On April 11, 2020, the WCW shocked the world by revealing to the UK’s Daily Mail that the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) had wasted a part of a $3.7 million grant to fund dangerous bat and animal experiments in Wuhan, which is believed to be the reason behind the lab leak and COVID-19.
Following WCW’s investigation, President Donald Trump cut the NIH grant that was funding the Wuhan lab, citing it as a “tremendous waste in the government”. However, WCW discovered that the Wuhan lab was still authorized to receive taxpayers’ money for animal testing from NIH until 2024. Recently, we worked with Congress to successfully cut off Wuhan’s taxpayer funding from the US State Department and Pentagon, both of which had previously funded the lab.
According to the official notes, it seems that “the Wuhan lab has remained eligible for more tax money from the NIH despite growing concerns about how the lab recklessly wasted tax dollars to collect coronaviruses from wild bats, engineered those viruses to be more deadly and contagious to humans and injected the supercharged viruses into “humanized” mice who became very sick and died.”
In fact, last year, journalists uncovered an internal NIH video showing how the agency was actively lobbying against our efforts with Congress to defund the Wuhan lab.
“Finally, in January 2023, a federal watchdog report prompted by WCW recommended that WIV be permanently prohibited from receiving tax dollars, in part for refusing to cooperate with investigations of the NIH-funded gain-of-function animal experiments it conducted.
Yet, as of late April, the Wuhan lab was still on the NIHs list of foreign facilities eligible to receive tax money for animal tests,” according to the original notes.
