COVID-19 origin motivates policy five years after the pandemic

Nearly five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and political leaders are still searching for answers to how the novel coronavirus originated in the hopes of preventing the next global public health crisis.

Twenty-one days after the World Health Organization was first notified by Chinese officials of several cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause in the city of Wuhan, the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

The virus would go on to take nearly 7 million lives worldwide over the next three years, including 1.2 million Americans, the most of any single country. 

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), who has led the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic investigation into the origins

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