House GOP Commissions Probe Into Origin Of COVID

The Washington Post reports:

House Republicans on Monday commissioned a special investigative panel focused on the coronavirus pandemic, hoping to leverage their new, powerful majority to press scientists and federal officials about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it.

Republicans have long derided Democrats, public health experts and others who advocated for an aggressive government response to covid-19, which has claimed millions of lives globally.

At the center of GOP criticism is the suspicion that the coronavirus originated out of laboratory experiments in Wuhan, China, potentially backed by U.S. money — a view at odds with peer-reviewed scientific papers pointing to a more likely origin in a Wuhan market.

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With new control of the House, Republicans commissioned an investigative panel focused on the pandemic, hoping to leverage their majority to press scientists and officials about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it. https://t.co/P5erezkwQX

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 10, 2023