Imo, this has nothing to do with the right wanting a lab leak or what the left is worried about.
Here is part of page 1 of the letter released by Republican oversight ....
Drs. Aleksei Chmura and Peter Daszak
EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.
460 W 34th St
Suite 1701
New York, NY 10001
Re: NIH Grant R01AI110964
Dear Drs. Chmura and Daszak:
In follow-up to my previous letter of April 24, 2020, I am writing to notify you that the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an Institute within the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has withdrawn its
termination of grant R01AI110964, which supports the project Understanding the Risk of Bat
Coronavirus Emergence. Accordingly, the grant is reinstated.
However, as you are aware, the NIH has received reports that the Wuhan Institute of Virology
(WIV), a subrecipient of EcoHealth Alliance under R01AI110964, has been conducting research
at its facilities in China that pose serious bio-safety concerns and, as a result, create health and
welfare threats to the public in China and other countries, including the United States. Grant
award R01AI110964 is subject to biosafety requirements set forth in the NIH Grants Policy
Statement (e.g., NIH GPS, Section 4.1.24 “Public Health Security”) and the Notice of Award
(e.g., requiring that “Research funded under this grant must adhere to the [CDC/NIH Biosafety
in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL)].”). Moreover, NIH grant recipients
are expected to provide safe working conditions for their employees and foster work
environments conducive to high-quality research. NIH GPS, Section 4. The terms and conditions
of the grant award flow down to subawards to subrecipients. 45 C.F.R. § 75.101.
As the grantee, EcoHealth Alliance was required to “monitor the activities of the subrecipient as
necessary to ensure that the subaward is used for authorized purposes, in compliance with
Federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions of the subaward . . .” 45 C.F.R. §
75.352(d). We have concerns that WIV has not satisfied safety requirements under the award,
and that EcoHealth Alliance has not satisfied its obligations to monitor the activities of its
subrecipient to ensure compliance.
Moreover, as we have informed you through prior Notices of Award, this award is subject to the
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