WASHINGTON — A House panel is pushing for a virus research group and its director to be formally debarred from any federal funds and criminally investigated, the latest in a campaign to probe the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and regulate virus research.
A new report by a select coronavirus subcommittee says the research group, EcoHealth Alliance, failed to report high-risk viral disease research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and misrepresented its work to U.S. federal agencies. The report was released ahead of a Wednesday hearing with the organization’s president, Peter Daszak.
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