COVID-19 origins: Reps. Stefanik, Wittman introduce legislation sanctioning top Chinese health officials
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Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., introduced a bill to take action against Chinese health officials as doubts remain about China's transparency regarding the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
The act would ask the U.S. intelligence community to identify individuals who may have silenced doctors and journalists at the beginning of the pandemic, impose Global Magnitsky Sanctions on China's top health officials, and bar American universities from entering into any new contracts with China's National Health Commission, among other provisions. The bill would also prohibit the National Academy of Sciences from using federal dollars to enter into new contracts to fund Chinese-based institutes or universities that are part of China's National Health Commission and review whether National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding has gone to gain-of-function research, directly or indirectly.More Related News