Charges of a Covid Coverup

The Morens indictment reveals an effort to hide facts about the U.S. role

WSJ editorial. Excerpts:

"the facts in the indictment, which say he [David Morens] intentionally sought to obfuscate the NIH role in funding the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which may have contributed to the virus leaking from a Chinese lab."

"The NIH last decade provided some $8 million in grants to EcoHealth, some of which funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s gain-of-function virus experiments."

"Between February and March 2020, Dr. Morens and a co-conspirator—whom press reports say is Mr. Daszak—co-authored articles arguing that the virus most likely emerged from the wild."

"On June 17, 2021, the indictment says, he warned Mr. Daszak and “others” that he had received a document production request by five Senators investigating the virus’s origins. Dr. Morens assured his correspondents that he had “retained very few documents on these matters.” Public officials are required by federal law and instructed to retain all such documents."