Thursday that would require foreign labs that receive money from the NIH through a U.S. entity to share all records about U.S.-funded experiments.
EcoHealth received funding from NIAID to conduct bat coronavirus research at the WIV beginning in 2014 to better understand the natural emergence of viruses with pandemic ability. Federal funding was pulled from the project in 2020 due to concerns about the research’s connection to COVID-19, but it was subsequently restored under the Biden administration.
When questioned before the committee, President of EcoHealth Peter Daszak testified that researchers at the WIV stopped sharing critical information with his American-based team about the U.S.-funded research, including lab notebooks, raw data, and progress reports.by EcoHealth document that Daszak’s team had over 15,000 samples of coronaviruses frozen in the WIV lab, access to which was entirely cut off following the NIH revoking funding in 2020., following the congressional investigation.
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