EXCLUSIVE: GOP lawmakers demand Biden administration turn over evidence linking COVID to Chinese lab
In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. On Dec. 30, 2019, Wuhan health officials issued an internal notice ... more >
By Haris Alic - The Washington Times - Friday, May 21, 2021
GOP lawmakers on Friday demanded Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas provide information on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including whether evidence exists that the outbreak came from a Chinese lab.
In a letter to Mr. Mayorkas, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans requested a series of classified briefings as part of a probe into the origins of the pandemic blamed for more than 580,000 deaths in the U.S.
“As Republican leaders of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the congressional committee with jurisdiction over public health, we strongly support a comprehensive investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the possibility of an accidental laboratory leak,” the lawmakers wrote.
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