Statewide Iowa — Republican Senator Joni Ernst is again raising questions about previous federal funding for a U.S. based organization that wound up supporting research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
In late October, the National Institutes of Health called on the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance to provide the data from unpublished research about mice in the Wuhan lab that got sick from a strain of the coronavirus, but U.S. officials say that strain is not closely connected to COVID-19. Ernst says the agency and Dr. Anthony Fauci it’s most famous employee had a legal obligation to know how U.S. grant money was being spent.
This week, Ernst is introducing a ban on federal funding for the U.S. based EcoHealth Alliance that worked with the Wuhan lab.
The EcoHealth Alliance said last month it was working with the National Institutes of Health to address what it called misconceptions about its support of coronavirus research in China. Ernst says the non-profit has not responded to her requests for information and she may call for a subpoena to get more information from EcoHealth.
