House Committee Threatens to Subpoena EcoHealth Chief Peter Daszak

The House committee that is investigating circumstances around the COVID-19 outbreak has threatened to issue a subpoena for more answers from the scientist who worked closely with the Chinese lab in the city where the first infections occurred. The U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic issued a statement on X on May 26, calling on Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, to comply with the committee’s requests for information related to the role played by EcoHealth Alliance in risky gain-of-function research in China on bat coronaviruses. Mr. Daszak recently had his funding suspended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and he faces possible debarring and a permanent block on receiving funding. HHS officials said in a letter that they hold him responsible for the failure of EcoHealth to adequately monitor the activities at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the Wuhan facility at the center of claims that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked out from that lab and caused a global pandemic....