On the menu today: Newly released emails show that in the first weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, and other high-level government officials wanted to dispel the notion of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — and EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak opposed the public release of Covid-19-related virus-sequence data gathered from China, warning that it would bring “very unwelcome attention.”
Is It the Job of a Scientist to Prioritize ‘International Harmony’?
A letter sent on Tuesday from a group of Republicans on the House Oversight Committee to Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra reads, in part:
On February 1, 2020, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and at least eleven other scientists convened a conference call to discuss COVID-19.7 It was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] and, further, may have been intentionally ...