NIH Cuts US Taxpayer Funding for COVID-Linked Wuhan Institute

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has removed China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, the facility long suspected of being the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, from the labs where U.S. money can be used to fund testing on animals, according to a new update to the agency's funding list.

The Wuhan laboratory, along with all Russian labs, were removed from the NIH list. Justin Goodman, the senior vice president for advocacy at the White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog group that has been pushing to expose the money funding the lab, called the move a "decisive victory in the war on waste," reports The Washington Times. --- More...