"[The international community must immediately begin planning a parallel investigation process through a mechanism the Chinese government cannot block"

thehill.com/opinion/health…
"The United States should also extend the Biden intelligence review indefinitely until the pandemic origins issue is resolved and establish a bipartisan national COVID-19 commission to examine how this crisis began and other failures across-the-board."
"[N]o safe future can be built on a foundation of misrepresentations and lies. Accountability today will establish the essential principle of accountability for tomorrow."
"If we don’t do everything possible now to understand what went wrong and fix our biggest problems, we will remain unnecessarily at risk and future generations will almost certainly blame us for our cowardice."
Many threads of investigation are available in the US and would be accessible to a Congressional inquiry with subpoena power.

At EcoHealth. At funding agencies (USAID, DTRA, DARPA, DHS, and NIH). At publishers (Springer-Nature and Lancet).

No cooperation from China needed.

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