British epidemiologist Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, will appear before a House panel Wednesday morning to testify regarding his role in determining the origins of COVID-19.
The public hearing is the latest development in the multiyear investigation into Daszak and his organization, EcoHealth Alliance, for their work on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, that receive funding from the National Institutes of Health.
EcoHealth Alliance has strong ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the same city where the first human cases of SARS-CoV-2 were reported in December 2019. The WIV quickly became the epicenter of the lab-leak theory of the origin of the virus.
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Daszak appeared before the House Oversight and Energy and Commerce committees in a closed-door transcribed interview session in
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