The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold a hearing in July to question the five academics who wrote and published the paper that was cited by top public health officials in discrediting the hypothesis that the coronavirus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
“With insufficient evidence in hand and Dr. Fauci’s prompting as protection, ‘Proximal Origins’ seemingly became one of the most egregious cover-ups of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said subcommittee chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH). The paper is titled The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.
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The subcommittee last Friday issued its first subpoena for the telecommunications between the five co-authors of the paper, which was published in Nature Medicine in March 2020 and concluded, “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
Based upon an email from Kristian Andersen, the lead author, stating the paper was “prompted by” then-chief pandemic adviser Anthony Fauci, the subcommittee is seeking to investigate the conflicts of interest that could have promoted the zoonotic hypothesis of origin as opposed to possible lab leak alternatives.
“These scientists have essential information to share with Americans about the cover-up of the origins of COVID-19 and the potential suppression of the lab-leak hypothesis by Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and public health authorities. A complete look at all the facts is necessary, and the truth is non-negotiable,” said Wenstrup.
Wenstrup is a member of the House Doctors Caucus and earned his medical degree in 1985.
On Friday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified, redacted report detailing the intelligence community’s assessment of the involvement of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Although the report concludes that there is no direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated at the WIV, the report confirms that the lab did conduct extensive research on coronaviruses without adequate safety precautions. The report also further explains that “some of [the] symptoms of the three lab workers who fell ill in late 2019 were consistent with the novel coronavirus but were ultimately “not diagnostic.”
“Robust scientific discourse was abandoned in pursuit of a preferred, coordinated narrative,” argued Wenstrup. “The origination of a virus that killed seven million people worldwide requires a thorough and comprehensive investigation — not a snap judgment based on questionable motives.”
