US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on Monday said Washington must push Beijing to be more honest about the origins of the Covid pandemic. Chinese officials have called it a smear.
The Energy Department has reversed its position and concluded based on new intelligence that the Covid-19 virus most likely leaked from a Chinese research lab.
Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) (pictured right) has proposed installing a federal watchdog office in the NIH to monitor federal grant money sent to labs where gain-of-function research is performed.
A report by the US Office of Inspector General found the country s medical research agency did not correctly review whether the tests in Wuhan involved pathogens with pandemic potential.