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Republicans trying to unearth the origins of COVID-19 say they will launch a full-blown investigation – with the support of subpoena power – into the cause of the global pandemic if the GOP takes control of Congress in January.
For months, Republicans have been calling on Democrats to hold investigative public hearings and to compel testimony from grant agencies to learn more about the research being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China – to no avail. But if Congress flips to GOP control during the midterm elections, Republicans say they are prepared to use all the tools of the majority to find answers.
“House Republicans on Energy and Commerce are determined to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID-19, and we will leave no stone unturned,” Washington GOP Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top Republican on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, told Fox News Digital.
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“For every American who lost a loved one to COVID, every nurse and first responder who worked night and day to fight COVID and keep us safe, and every child who has faced a mental health emergency due to school closures and lockdowns, they deserve answers.”
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., questions Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., during a House Energy and Commerce Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on April 2, 2019, in Washington.
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There are two competing theories of how COVID-19 started: naturally or through a lab release. Under the natural origin theory, the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, would have originated in an animal and traveled to humans either directly or through an intermediate host animal. Another theory is that the virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which studies bat coronaviruses and has engaged in risky gain-of-function…
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