WASHINGTON, Dec 14 US congressmen demand data from the White House on the origins of COVID-19, the House Oversight and Reform Committee released a statement. representatives of the Biden administration <…> necessary information for the oversight committee's investigation into the origins of COVID,» the report said.
In addition, for the first time, congressmen announced the names of 40 individuals from whom the committee will «require the recording of interviews.»
Letters requesting necessary documents and information about the origins of COVID-19 were resent to US Secretary of Health Javier Becerra, the country's chief infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci, Biden's science adviser Francis Collins, an employee of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as several representatives of the scientific and medical communities.
The committee indicated that an investigation is required to protect Americans in the future and establish the causes of the origin of the coronavirus. The U.S. National Institutes of Health provided taxpayer-funded grants to the Wuhan lab in China, according to the statement. This money was used to conduct research — this fact will also be studied by the committee.
As The Sun newspaper reported in early December, scientist Andrew Huff, who claimed that COVID-19 was created in a Chinese laboratory with US funding, accused the FBI of persecuting . It was noted that Huff was previously a vice president of the EcoHealth Alliance and worked with classified data. In his book The Truth about Wuhan, he claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of US funding for the creation of coronaviruses in China.
According to the scientist, after he decided to make information about the virus public , Washington launched an «illegal psychological operation» against him. Military drones began to appear near his residence, his house was robbed, and his computer and phone were hacked. Moreover, an unknown person broke in to delete the photo from the computer, the scientist said.