The president of EcoHealth Alliance, which used taxpayer money to fund research at the Wuhan virus lab, will appear before Congress next month to defend his firm's work.
A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the …The president of EcoHealth Alliance, which used taxpayer money to fund research at the Wuhan virus lab, will appear before Congress next month to defend his firm’s work.
They said his statements in a November appearance behind closed doors don’t match documents that the committees have seen. “The Committees have a right and an obligation to protect the integrity of their investigations, including the accuracy of testimony during a transcribed interview. We invite you to correct the record,” they wrote.
A federal inspector general has dinged EcoHealth and the National Institutes of Health, which provided some of the funding, for failing to keep adequate controls on how the Chinese laboratory used it.
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