GOP House Members Pose Questions to NIH Over US Nonprofit That Helped Fund Wuhan Lab

The P4 laboratory building at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is shown in Wuhan, China, on May 13, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

A group of Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on June 10 sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), asking for information that would assist a probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-Wash.), the ranking Republican on the panel, was joined by 25 other Republican lawmakers in signing a letter to NIH Director Francis Collins, asking for reports and documents related to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), which channeled money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for the purpose of “understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence.”