The origin of COVID-19 was the subject of a House hearing Wednesday with testimony from Dr. Robert Redfield, senior fitness officer, former director of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U. S.
A House subcommittee, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, hosted the hearing with Redfield, who has been a proponent of the controversial theory that the virus originated in a twist of fate at a lab in Wuhan, China.
“This investigation wants to start with where and how this virus emerged so that we can try to ‘predict, prepare or prevent’ it from falling again,” subcommittee chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, previously said.
House Republicans scheduled the hearing following recent reports that the Energy Department now believes, with “little confidence,” that the COVID pandemic began with an unintentional lab leak in Wuhan.
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Contributors: Jay Cannon and David Jackson, USA TODAY