NIH doctor sounded alarms about Wuhan lab safety in 2017, report shows

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Sen. Ron Johnson is pursuing information about a government official’s safety fears regarding the Wuhan Institute of Virology, two years before the pandemic.

in October 2017 and raised safety concerns almost exactly two years before the COVID-19 pandemic began to emerge in the central Chinese city.

China infamously restricted domestic travel out of Wuhan when the virus first surfaced, but permitted international travel.Sen. Ron Johnson has accused the Health and Human Services Department of stonewalling his requests.“[D]uring interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted that the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,” the cable said.Johnson and Sen.

“It seems apparent that the only reason that HHS redacted this information was to hide the report’s contents from the American people. Perhaps HHS did not want the public to fully understand the fact that NIH and NIAID officials were aware of safety concerns at the WIV dating as far back as 2017.” HHS cited failure to comply with government regulations, but there had been mounting political pressure as well.AFP via Getty Images

 

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