{"id":80012,"date":"2021-09-02T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=80012"},"modified":"2021-09-02T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:38:16","slug":"lab-leak-why-congress-split-investigating-covids-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/lab-leak-why-congress-split-investigating-covids-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Leak? 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Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the lead Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who has been pressing for answers from various agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">On March 18, she and two GOP colleagues sent the National Institute of Health (NIH)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-energycommerce.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/NIH-Investigation-COVID-origins.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29 questions<\/a>&nbsp;requesting information and related documents about how COVID-19 started and whether U.S. taxpayer funds supported research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">A year and a half into a worldwide pandemic that is blamed for the deaths of more than 3 million people, a Chinese lab in Wuhan is under growing scrutiny for a possible connection to the outbreak of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":80013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1024,1031],"tags":[33,36,40],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lab Leak? 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