WASHINGTON – The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded that COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
The finding was included in a final report titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward,” capping a two-year investigation into the pandemic. The report will serve as a road map for Congress, the president and the private sector to prepare for and respond to future pandemics.
A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is most likely the origin of COVID-19. The committee found that current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
It also found that the National Institutes of Health’s procedures for funding and overseeing potentially dangerous research are deficient and unreliable, seriously threatening public health and national security.
Since February 2023, the Select Subcommittee has sent more than 100 investigative letters, conducted more than 30 transcribed interviews and depositions, held 25 hearings and meetings, and reviewed more than one million pages of documents. This 520-page final report details all findings of the Select Subcommittee’s investigation.
