The president of a prominent virology research organization often implicated in debates over the origin of COVID-19 will testify in a public congressional hearing next month, a key step in the House investigation into the cause of the virus.
Republicans from the House Oversight and Energy and Commerce committees jointly announced that Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, agreed to testify on May 1 in a public hearing run by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
EcoHealth, an international nonprofit organization with the mission of preventing pandemics, has been the subject of scrutiny from House Republicans since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic over fears that its research projects in China, funded by the National Institutes of Health,
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