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(Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans who investigated the origin of the virus that caused covid-19 may have started from a lab leak, though they say the findings lack irrefutable evidence.
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The Republican report on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released Thursday is the latest attempt by the Republican Party to pressure Biden’s management and congressional Democrats to take a more serious look at the theory that covid is in a lab.
Questions about the origins of covid-19 have an increasingly partisan theme. Republicans of domestic power and advertising have pressed the National Institutes of Health over the laboratory leak theory.
However, most scientists concluded from a Science article published in August that the virus has passed from animals to humans, at most likely in crowded rainy markets in Wuhan, China.
“I’m involved because the crowd driving this narrative is not based on clinical facts,” Gigi Gronvall, an immunologist and senior researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said of the lab leak theory before seeing the report. Pinturas had concluded that science and the origin of the animal industry was “very strong”.
The Senate HELP report summarizes publicly available, open-source information similar to the possible origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N. C. ), a senior member of the panel, said he hopes the report will be consulted by the World Health Organization and other foreign establishments and researchers.
“With COVID-19 still with us, it is critical that we continue efforts overseas to uncover more data related to the origins of this fatal virus,” Burr said.
HELP Senate Chair Patty Murray said Thursday that she was still committed to engaging with Burr in an investigation into the origins of Covid, the report only being released through Burr’s staff.
Murray said that “conducting a comprehensive review of how COVID-19 first emerged” is the biisan pandemic preparedness law (S. 3799) passed through the HELP Committee in March.
But the bill called for an independent task force to investigate the origins of Covid-19. “It’s certainly critical that we are informed of this pandemic so that we never place ourselves on stage again,” Murray said. “I remain committed to passing the PREVENT Pandemics Act, which came out of committee with overwhelming bipartisan support. “
To touch on this story: Alex Ruoff in Washington, aruoff@bgov. com; Jeannie Baumann in Washington jbaumann@bloombergindustry. com
To touch the editors of this story: Sarah Babbage in sbabbage@bgov. com; Robin Meszoly to rmeszoly@bgov. com
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