{"id":529008,"date":"2021-05-20T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529008"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:05:26","slug":"house-republicans-significant-circumstantial-evidence-covid-19-originated-from-wuhan-lab-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-significant-circumstantial-evidence-covid-19-originated-from-wuhan-lab-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans: \u2018Significant Circumstantial Evidence\u2019 COVID-19 Originated From Wuhan Lab Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-significant-circumstantial-evidence-covid-19-originated-from-wuhan-lab-leak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=529008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232323469-scaled-e1621518338710.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>House Republicans released a report Wednesday stating there is \u201csignificant circumstantial evidence\u201d COVID-19 emerged from Wuhan via an accidental lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).<\/p>\n<p>House Intelligence Committee Republicans said the federal government needs to put \u201cmore pressure on China\u201d and push for a \u201cfull, credible investigation,\u201d according to the report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-intel-republicans-say-significant-circumstantial-evidence-of-covid-wuhan-lab-leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first obtained by Fox News<\/a>. They added that it is \u201ccrucial for health experts and the U.S. government to understand how the COVID-19 virus originated\u201d to \u201cquickly mitigate future pandemics.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.596330275229\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: GOP House Intel Committee members agree w\/ Dr. Ralph Baric, believe more investigation into COVID-19 origin is needed. Cmte: there\u2019s \u201csignificant circumstantial evidence\u201d it leaked from Wuhan lab; next to 0 evidence of zoonotic transmission. Article coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenvanlaar\/status\/1395162701773479941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report pointed to past instances of lab leaks in China as well as 2017 warnings from U.S. diplomats about dangerous research being conducted in an unsafe manner at the WIV. They also claim that the Chinese military was involved with research at the WIV&nbsp; and note that several researchers at the lab became ill in Fall 2019, well before the onset of the global pandemic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/did-coronavirus-come-from-a-lab-covid-19-wuhan-china-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Coronavirus Come From A Lab? Ten Key Takeaways From A Shocking New Report)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational efforts to discover the true source of the virus, however, have been stymied by a lack of cooperation from the People\u2019s Republic of China,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/14\/republicans-bill-scott-perry-wuhan-institute-virology-covid-19-coronavirus-nih\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Republicans<\/a> said. \u201cNevertheless, significant circumstantial evidence raises serious concerns that the COVID-19 outbreak may have been a leak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report also called for the government to \u201cprovide a full accounting of any American cooperation with the Wuhan lab\u2019s coronavirus research.\u201d In a Senate hearing last week, Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/fauci-denies-funding-gain-of-function-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparred over whether<\/a> taxpayer funds from the National Institutes of Health <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/ecohealth-alliance-covid-19-coronavirus-peter-daszak-wuhan-institute-virology-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had been used<\/a> to conduct dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/12\/china-wuhan-covid-19-coronavirus-gain-of-function-research-lab-leak-nih\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gain-of-function research<\/a> at the WIV.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the lab leak hypothesis has intensified in recent months after the World Health Organization investigation into the pandemic\u2019s origins was panned by both sides of the aisle for being insufficient and lacking transparency. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/11\/dr-sanjay-gupta-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-much-more-informed-robert-redfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More and more media outlets<\/a>, many of which once called the lab leak hypothesis a \u201cconspiracy theory,\u201d have began lending credibility to the idea. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/nih-director-lab-leak-hypothesis-covid-19-origins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: NIH Director With Ties To Wuhan Lab Says Lab-Leak Theory Worth Further Investigation A Year After Dismissing It As \u2018Debunked\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/22\/joe-biden-world-health-organization-china-jake-sullivan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed<\/a> concern about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/12\/world-health-organization-investigation-covid-19-coronavirus-origin-lab-leak-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WHO investigation<\/a>, and House Republicans say there is little evidence to support China\u2019s theory that the virus naturally jumped from bats to another animal to humans. Some high-profile officials, such as former <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/26\/robert-redfield-former-cdc-director-lab-leak-theory-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC Director Robert Redfield<\/a>, have publicly expressed support for the lab leak theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans released a report Wednesday stating there is \u201csignificant circumstantial evidence\u201d COVID-19 emerged from Wuhan via an accidental lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).House Intelligence Committee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312447,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232323469-scaled-e1621518338710.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Republicans: \u2018Significant Circumstantial Evidence\u2019 COVID-19 Originated From Wuhan Lab Leak","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232323469-scaled-e1621518338710.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"House Republicans: \u2018Significant Circumstantial Evidence\u2019 COVID-19 Originated From Wuhan Lab Leak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}