House Republicans secured a voluntary transcribed interview with EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak in mid-November as part of the congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19 on Friday.
"As mounting evidence and intelligence intensify concerns about the possible release of the COVID-19 pandemic from a laboratory incident in Wuhan, Dr. Daszak’s testimony will be critical to helping the Committees obtain information related to the origins of COVID-19 and any role [EcoHealth Alliance] may have played," reads a joint press statement from both the House Oversight and Energy and Commerce committees.
In July, an interim report released by Oversight Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup said that EcoHealth Alliance and the NIAID worked together to sidestep federal blocks on controversial gain of function research, or experimentation on viruses that increase their infectiousness or disease capacity.
Daszak has long been an outspoken critic of the lab leak theory of origin for SARS-CoV-2. In February 2020, Daszak and 26 other colleagues published an open letter in The Lancet ruling out the possibility of a lab leak and stating that the virus originated in wildlife.
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