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.
The documentation serves as proof of compliance with guidelines for appropriate animal care and treatment necessary for an organization to receive U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) funding.
The WIV was still on the list as recently as April 23. The current list, last updated on May 17, contains 27 other laboratories from China….}