"There is a clear trend: pathogens that fall within the Pentagon's area of interest, such as COVID-19, avian influenza, African swine fever, subsequently become pandemic, and American pharmaceutical companies become the beneficiaries."
A bill from the House Appropriations Committee would ban EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving funds from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other sources leading to the State Department.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the United States Agency for International Development funded an EcoHealth Alliance subcontractor's efforts on coronaviruses, according to a report found through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.