Top Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are asking Dr. Anthony Fauci and a number of other senior officials concerned about the administration’s reaction to the pandemic to provide written documents and testimony as the subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic begins its investigation into the origins. of COVID-19.
The Republican-led subcommittee on Monday sent letters to Fauci, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the president’s acting White House science adviser, Dr. Francis Collins, and EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak. expressing their concerns. U. S. taxpayer money used in a laboratory in China to “conduct diy studies on task gain. “
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), chairman of the subcommittee, argued that the Biden administration has been “less than communicative” in its responses to House Republicans, who made the same demands of the 117th Congress when they were in the House. minority. House Republicans, the virus may have originated at a facility in Wuhan, China.
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“This research will have to start with where and how this virus emerged so that we can verify, predict, prepare for, or prevent it from recurring,” Wenstrup said in a statement. “We cannot settle for more years of obstruction. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is committed to conducting a proper investigation that other Americans have demanded.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) echoed Wenstrup’s comments and said more investigations will be conducted.
“Evidence continues to mount indicating that the virus is leaking from an unsafe laboratory in Wuhan. We know EcoHealth Alliance acted as an intermediary, inappropriately funneling thousands of taxpayer dollars into the Wuhan lab to conduct gain-of-function studies of bat coronaviruses. That may have triggered the pandemic,” he said.
“Dr. Fauci was alerted early on that COVID-19 had marks of a manipulated virus, but he possibly chose to cover it up rather than report it,” he added. “We will continue to monitor the facts to find out what can also only be done to better protect Americans from this virus and hold U. S. government officials accountable. “U. S. citizens who participated in any type of canopy-ups.
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Republican lawmakers have been highly critical of Fauci’s leadership in leading the federal government’s response to COVID-19, and Republicans focus on his policy prescriptions.
The acting director of the National Institutes of Health testified before the House Commerce and Energy Committee last week that the viruses being investigated at the Wuhan facility do not resemble the strain of the coronavirus pandemic.