It’s the very least the federal government could do.

Federal health officials Wednesday suspended funding to a U.S. research organization linked to investigations about the novel coronavirus’s origins, saying the move is “necessary to protect the public interest” given the organization’s failure to monitor virus experiments in a Chinese lab before the pandemic.

Federal officials also are seeking to block future funding to EcoHealth Alliance, which worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, citing new evidence about EcoHealth’s actions that emerged ahead of a contentious congressional hearing this month.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, EcoHealth failed to adequately monitor and report on risky virus experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, violating the terms of its federal grant and biosafety requirements. EcoHealth is now suspended from federal funding and will be potentially debarred, HHS said in its letter to the organization. Suspended and debarred organizations are ineligible to receive new federal contracts, grants and other types of funding from the United States.

Almost since the beginnings of COVID-19 pandemic, this environmentalist group has been subjected to scrutiny including being accused of its bat coronavirus research resulting in the creation and transmission of the coronavirus. Not surprisingly, shortly after HHS made announced their announcement, The Washington Post says the green group announced they will appeal the agency’s decision.

Three years ago, the mainstream media tried to make the Eco-Health Alliance’s head, Peter Daszak, out to be an honest man who tried to warn people of a coming pandemic.

The Eco-Health Alliance was not authorized to conduct gain-of-function research and denied they conducted such experiments. But a U.S. House select committee investigation reveals they did and obviously ignored that requirement.

The Year 5 Report describes an experiment in which the WIV infected transgenic mice with four different coronaviruses, three of which were chimera or recombinant viruses with different spike proteins. The WIV then measured the pathogenicity of the novel laboratory created viruses as compared to the control, which was a full-length backbone of WIV1. The pathogenicity of the three chimeras was then compared to that of WIV1.

In the experiment, the survival rate of mice infected with WIV1 was 71.4 percent while the survival rate of the mice infected with one of the chimeric viruses (WIV1-SHC014) was just 25 percent. Therefore, the laboratory generated chimera was more pathogenic than the control virus and the mice infected with that chimera became sicker.

In the October 20, 2021 letter to Mr. Comer, Dr. Tabak described this experiment and its result as ‘unexpected.’ Regardless of whether the results were expected or not, it appears this experiment would constitute gain-of-function research.

Four years ago, such accusations of a lab leak or that COVID-19 was man-made was ridiculed as a conspiracy theory. A curse or saying attributed to the Chinese says May you live in interesting times and it is interesting, if not telling, when conspiracy theories, like the ones surrounding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic later turn out to be true.

The Eco-Health Alliance did what was expected of them, paying for the research to create a virus the Left could later weaponize and it was used when Donald Trump was president in order to help undermine his leadership. The best way to repudiate them would be to re-elect Donald Trump in November.

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