Where Are the Wuhan Subpoenas?

U.S. funding for risky Chinese virus research deserves investigation.

Hundreds of pages of documents have shown how the U.S. nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance received funding from the National Institutes of Health to work with the WIV. A grant in 2014 gave the Chinese institution some $600,000 for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” New developments have strengthened the already solid case for a Congressional investigation.

Last week House Oversight Committee Republicans released an NIH letter they said confirmed “EcoHealth and the WIV conducted GOF research on bat coronaviruses.” (GOF means gain-of-function research, which can make viruses more deadly or infectious.) The following day the Intercept, a left-leaning digital publication, wrote that annual grant reports showed that EcoHealth and WIV “were engaged in risky experiments and that the NIH may not have been fully aware of these activities.”

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