The Department of Health and Human Services followed its suspension and proposed debarment of EcoHealth Alliance, which passed through taxpayer money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a suspected source of COVID-19, by doing the same for its president, Peter Daszak, a week later.

The only difference between the documents invoked to justify the immediate and proposed permanent funding bans in the May 15 and May 21 notification letters to EcoHealth and Daszak, respectively, appears to be that the latter references the former. ...

It tells Daszak the suspension and proposed permanent funding ban is "related to your respective roles" as EcoHealth president as well as program director and principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease grant to study "the risk of bat coronavirus emergence."