The House panel investigating the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is hearing testimony Tuesday. It comes amid dueling reports from lawmakers and bitter recriminations from the scientists, who say they have been wrongly maligned.
by five leading virologists studying the early coronavirus outbreak in March 2020 — helped prompt government officials and others to repeatedly dismiss the possibility that the pandemic began with a lab accident.
“This is not an attack on science. It’s not an attack on peer review,” Rep. Brad Wenstrup , the chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, said in an opening statement at Tuesday’s hearing. “We’re examining whether scientific integrity was disregarded in favor of political expediency, maybe to conceal or diminish the government’s relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology or perhaps its funding of risky gain-of-function coronavirus research.
Fauci, Collins and the virologists have denied the Republican allegations as baseless and politically motivated, saying they updated their positions as they studied the virus, and two of the paper’s authors defended their work in front of the panel on Tuesday.“Let me categorically say that these allegations are absurd and false,” Kristian Andersen, a Scripps Research scientist and co-author of the paper, testified in.
Andersen and his co-author, Robert F. Garry Jr., a professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, added that the team of virologists were motivated only to seek the truth about the pandemic’s origin. “When I outlined my initial hypothesis about a potentially engineered virus, Dr. Fauci told me — and I’m paraphrasing here — ‘If you think this virus came from a lab, you should write a scientific paper about it,’” Andersen said.
Virologists and evolutionary biologists have generally argued the virus probably spread to humans from a Wuhan market where wild animals were sold and butchered, citing
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