House Republicans plan to launch investigations into the NIH’s Covid-19 work, increasing scrutiny of the agency when it lacks key leadership
The NIH, based in Bethesda, Md., is the federal government’s life-sciences research arm.House Republicans plan to put the National Institutes of Health under the microscope, conducting investigations into its funding of research on viruses and handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The lawmakers, now in charge of the House, said they aim to probe the NIH’s oversight of research that involves to identify potential threats to humans and develop ways to fight them. The Republicans also want to probe the agency’s links to an institute in Wuhan, China, that conducts the pathogen research.
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