{"id":1979201,"date":"2023-07-21T06:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-wuhan-lab-funding-cut-is-too-little-too-late-critics-say\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T06:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T10:13:21","slug":"bidens-wuhan-lab-funding-cut-is-too-little-too-late-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-wuhan-lab-funding-cut-is-too-little-too-late-critics-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics argue that Biden&#8217;s recent reduction in funding for the Wuhan lab is insufficient and belated."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-wuhan-lab-funding-cut-is-too-little-too-late-critics-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Frequent Critics of the Biden Administration Applaud Funding Cut to Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/h2>\n<p>Frequent critics of the\u2062 Biden \u200dadministration\u200c on COVID-19 applauded a surprise move \u2063this week, but\u200c say it should have gone much further.<\/p>\n<p>President\u2064 Joe Biden has cut off U.S. government funding\u200d for \u200dChina&#8217;s Wuhan \u2063Institute of Virology after a review found the facility non-compliant with federal \u200cregulations.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Takes\u2064 New Action on Junk\u200b Fees, Food Prices, and Corporate Mergers<\/h3>\n<p>For many observers, especially those favoring the lab leak COVID origin theory, it was long overdue.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is a step forward toward acknowledging that COVID-19 likely originated from U.S.-funded\u2064 gain-of-function research at WIV and toward\u2062 taking steps\u2062 toward \u200dpreventing a future lab-generated pandemic,&#8221; said\u2062 Rutgers University professor Richard Ebright.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But\u2063 Ebright, a chemical\u200c biology professor, also complained \u200dthe move was insufficient to \u2063fully address the problem.<\/p>\n<p>For one, EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based organization that \u200cconducted coronavirus \u200cresearch at the lab, is still receiving \u2064federal dollars \u2062and has not been disbarred. \u2063Ebright also says \u200bformer National\u2063 Institutes of\u2063 Health director \u200cFrancis Collins and former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases leader \u200bAnthony\u200d Fauci were not held accountable for their role.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d like to\u2063 see a full ban on gain-of-function research.<\/p>\n<p>Others noted the timing of the announcement,\u200b well\u200b over \u2062three \u2063years\u2064 after\u2063 the pandemic started and with \u2063most\u200d people no longer thinking about it on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The funding that was previously denied to have existed has now\u2062 been stopped,&#8221; vaccine skeptic Robert Malone tweeted, along with\u2063 a link to a Washington Examiner story. \u200c&#8221;Nothing \u2064to see here, move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The WIV&#8217;s permanent funding block\u200b comes as\u200c the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-wuhan-lab-funding-cut-is-too-little-too-late-critics-say\/\" title=\"Critics argue that Biden's recent reduction in funding for the Wuhan lab is insufficient and belated.\">lab continues drawing controversy<\/a> over gain-of-function \u2062research that may \u2062have unleashed COVID-19 on the world.\u2062 No \u200dgoverning \u2062body has made the definitive determination that the virus leaked\u200d from \u200cthe lab, but the\u200c theory has gained steam \u2063after\u200b being buried\u200c early on.<\/p>\n<p>Seven million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u2063previously authorized the release of a \u2062COVID origins\u2064 report in June, which said the federal government \u2062will \u201ccontinue\u200d to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-declassifies-covid-19-origins-report\/\" title=\"US releases declassified report on COVID-19 origins.\">origin remain plausible hypotheses<\/a> to \u2063explain the first \u2063human infection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report did note that multiple scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-covid-19-likely-a-result-of-chinese-bioweapons-program\/\" title=\"Expert: COVID-19 likely a result of Chinese bioweapons program\">lab fell ill<\/a> in the fall of 2019 and that \u201cthe institute frequently did not adhere to safety protocols.\u201d The lab has \u200creceived more\u2062 than $1.4\u2064 million\u200d in U.S. federal awards\u2064 since 2014, though none since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A review of the\u2062 Wuhan lab from the Department \u200dof Health and Human Services began \u200din September, according to \u2063Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>House \u200bRepublicans are also \u200ccalling for\u2063 EcoHealth to be disbarred, but arguably the biggest pandemic critic in\u2062 Congress is Sen. Rand Paul \u2064(R-KY). Paul has sparred \u200dwith Fauci for years and is now holding up State Department nominations as he seeks more documents\u200c about the virus&#8217; \u200dorigin.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Kentucky \u200csenator\u200d supports the funding \u2063ban, though he noted in a Fox News interview\u2064 that Fauci at first denied that any U.S. money ever went to Wuhan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not going \u2064far enough,&#8221; Paul \u2062said. \u200c&#8221;It is a good step forward to forbid this, but we need to go beyond that to try to prevent this kind of accident from happening anywhere in\u200c the \u2063world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not everyone is convinced there&#8217;s a deeper meaning behind the funding ban.<\/p>\n<p>Public\u2063 health professor\u200c Andrew Noymer noted that NIH began \u2063selectively\u200c defunding WIV\u2064 projects as early \u2063as May 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Some people\u2064 will read tea leaves\u2062 that this\u2063 supports a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-sign-on-to-investigate-whether-virus-leaked-from-chinese-lab\/\" title=\"House Dems Sign On To Investigate Whether Virus Leaked from Chinese Lab\">lab leak origin<\/a> of COVID-19, but I don&#8217;t \u2063think we can draw that\u2064 conclusion,&#8221;\u2064 Noymer, a professor at\u2063 the University\u200c of California, \u200dIrvine, said. &#8220;This certainly is not a frank admission of a lab\u200d leak origin of COVID, \u200cand\u200b I \u200bdon&#8217;t even read it as a tacit admission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, he too calls for further moves to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yemen-lgbt-refugees-and-white-supremacy-everything-you-need-to-know-about-bidens-first-foreign-policy-speech\/\" title=\"Yemen, LGBT Refugees, And White Supremacy: Everything You Need To Know About Biden\u2019s First Foreign Policy Speech\">prevent future pandemics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should renew the moratorium on dangerous\u2064 gain-of-function virology research,&#8221; Noymer said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE\u2062 FROM\u2062 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of Biden&#8217;s COVID-19 response praised his decision to halt funding for China&#8217;s Wuhan Institute of Virology due to non-compliance with regulations. However, they argue that more action should have been taken. 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