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This is one heck of a 14-page letter:

"We have significant concerns about the adequacy of NIH oversight of EcoHealth and the related research activities at the WIV and other organizations in China."
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"NIH also failed to report EcoHealth’s noncompliance and grant suspension into the SAM.gov database that alerts other U.S. Government agencies to risky grant recipients..."

"NIH, USAID and Department of Defense (DoD) have paid EcoHealth more than $23.4 million in new and renewed assistance awards since April 2020, when NIH should have reported the administrative action it took against EcoHealth’s grant."

1. Does NIH plan to stop funding EcoHealth until it is compliant with NIH’s requests?

2. Does NIH plan to recover the money paid to EcoHealth on its suspended grant?

3. Please identify who authorized the $369,819 funding issued to EcoHealth on July 13, 2020, and the specific authority for this funding.

4. Does NIH intend to enter the EcoHealth suspension into the SAM.gov database that is intended for agency reporting of temporary or permanent suspensions?

5. Please provide all funded and denied grant applications, progress and final reports for all NIH grants awarded to EcoHealth Alliance as a prime or subgrant recipient in
unredacted form.

6...

a. all documents that were not provided to The Intercept, including the letter from EcoHealth on which NIH based its decision to increase the award,

b. EcoHealth’s original application, and

c. all other original documents for which only the revised versions were produced.

7. Please provide all correspondence between EcoHealth and NIH, including any letter exchanges about NIH’s identification of EcoHealth research that potentially included GOF experiments and EcoHealth’s response, dated in May, June, and July of 2016 and
July 2018...

7. cont: all correspondence between EcoHealth and NIH, including any letter exchanges about humanized mice experiments conducted during Year Five of the grant. Please also include another missing letter from EcoHealth to NIH that was used as the basis to increase the award amount

8. Please provide an accounting of all EcoHealth subawards, including contracts or any other agreements, to all organizations and scientists located in or sponsored by China from the year 2000 to the present.

9. Please facilitate access for Committee staff and the undersigned to EcoHealth’s genomic sequence data and/or database of unpublished and published sequences.

*This is crucial*

10. Please provide all documentation regarding NIH’s resource coordination with USAID, EcoHealth, DoD, and any other communications in which NIH took steps to ensure no overlap of U.S. Government agency funds for the same research was occurring.

11. Provide EcoHealth’s original Year Four progress report for period of June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018, that would have been submitted in 2018.

12. Provide the list of all NIH personnel involved in development of HHS P3CO framework with an explanation of each individual’s role.

13. What would be the purpose of conducting humanized mice experiments other than to test whether a virus could infect human cells?

14. Please make appropriate NIAID personnel available to Committee staff to address questions about the handling of the EcoHealth grant.

15. When did NIAID first learn that EcoHealth had conducted the humanized mice experiment proposed in 2016?

16. Why did NIAID conduct an HHS P3CO review of the EcoHealth research proposal if the experiment was already conducted?

17. Why were less risky alternative approaches to EcoHealth’s proposed experiment not considered and discussed?

18. Please explain why NIAID concluded that the EcoHealth grant was not subject to the HHS P3CO framework.

Lol. Small wonder that Collins suddenly retired.

On July 13, 2020, NIH issued a revised award approval notice to EcoHealth for 6th year of the suspended project, despite NIH’s suspension of all grant activities.

NIH designated specific allocations of $76,301 for WIV, & $75,600 for Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing.

This entire letter is just fire. Was sent on October 27th.

h/t @R_H_Ebright

Shame we're only seeing it today. Overshadowed by @GlennYoungkin big win!!