Category: Pandemic Ties to CCP

US National Institutes of Health Ending Subaward for Lab in Wuhan, China

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million, starting in 2014, to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China….


US National Institutes of Health Halting Money From Grant From Lab in Wuhan, China

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million, starting in 2014, to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China….


Experts Call on Congress to Quickly Implement New Gain of Function Oversight System After NIH ‘Failure’

Experts on Aug. 3 urged Congress to implement a new oversight system over risky research conducted in or funded by the United States, asserting the present system is ill-equipped to identify problematic experiments. Two Department of Health and Human Services agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are currently…


Sen. Rand Paul to Lead First Ever Congressional Hearing on Gain-of-Function Research

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is set to lead the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing, scheduled for Aug. 3, comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny on whether a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) caused the pandemic, as…


Sens. Paul, Hassan to Lead First Ever Congressional Hearing on Gain-of-Function Research

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.) are set to lead the first congressional hearing on gain-of-function research as part of his ongoing efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hearing, scheduled for Aug. 3, comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny on whether a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)…


Congress Should Investigate NIH to Learn More About Origins of COVID-19, Urges Pete Hoekstra

An investigation into how the National Institutes of Health cooperated with a research lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan would shed further light on the origins of the coronavirus, said former chair and ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Pete Hoekstra. This is important as China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has…


Fauci Says He Is ‘Open’ on Virus Lab Leak Theory

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is keeping an “open mind” over claims that the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese lab, despite his long-standing assertion that the virus had a natural origin. “We have an open mind but it looks very much like this was a natural occurrence, but you keep an open mind,”…


FBI Launched Inquiry Into NIH Funding of Wuhan Lab, Emails Show

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched an inquiry into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding of bat research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, newly released emails show. The interest from the top U.S. intelligence agency adds to the international scrutiny on the Wuhan facility, which houses one of China’s highest-level biosecurity labs…


EXCLUSIVE: Chip Roy Questions Top Texas University Scientist Over Links to Wuhan Lab

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) in a July 6 letter questioned Dr. James LeDuc, former director of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), about the ties between UTMB and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Roy’s letter, which was exclusively obtained by The Epoch Times, accuses LeDuc of violating both federal and Texas state law in…


EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Chip Roy Questions Top Texas University Scientist Over Links to Wuhan Lab

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) in a July 6 letter questioned Dr. James LeDuc, former director of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), about the ties between UTMB and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Roy’s letter, which was exclusively obtained by The Epoch Times, accuses LeDuc of violating both federal and Texas state law in…