NIH Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Lab at Center of COVID Leak Controversy

Peter Daszak (R), Thea Fischer (L) and other members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei Province on Feb. 3, 2021. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has quietly removed the Wuhan lab suspected as a source of COVID-19 from its list of foreign facilities eligible to conduct animal experiments with taxpayer dollars.

Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was absent from the list of institutions with animal welfare assurance that the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare oversees.