Republican Reps, Elise Stefanik, Traces Pandemic Origin

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Republican Reps asks questions on pandemic<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that&comma; one year after&comma; United States parliament renews efforts at unraveling the main and true origin of pandemic that has nearly collapsed global economy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the centre of this research is Elise Marie Stefanik&comma; an American businesswoman and politician serving as the U&period;S representative for New York&&num;8217&semi;s 21st congressional district since 2015&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Stefanik is also the chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021 and the third-ranking House Republican&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the inner thinking of Stefanik &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;China lied and Americans died&period;” Therefore&comma; her party plans to put the origins of the pandemic at the center of the 2022 midterm elections&period; Republicans are calling on Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to hold hearings on whether the virus was naturally transmitted from animals to humans or leaked out of a lab in Wuhan in China&period; They want to paint Democrats as defending the ruling Chinese Communist Party by not being more active in punishing Beijing for the virus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One Republican lawmaker at a news conference beneath the Capitol Dome on Thursday laid out an important argument that explains why the pandemic&&num;8217&semi;s origin is so important&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s been over a year&period; Why does it matter&quest; It matters for public health&period; It matters for national security&period; It matters because &lpar;of&rpar; how we address the next pandemic&comma;” said Rep&period; Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa&comma; who is a physician&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The question of whether Covid-19 escaped a Wuhan lab boiled among conservative conspiracy theorists for months&comma; but recently leaped into the mainstream&colon; President Joe Biden tasked US intelligence agencies with investigating the question&comma; and there is scrutiny on whether the virus could have been manipulated for extra transmissibility&period; But there’s also a risk that politics has already corrupted investigations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stefanik’s comments point to the highly politicized nature of the inquiry&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;House Republicans want justice for the American people&comma; we want transparency for the American people and accountability for the American people for the more than 600&comma;000 Americans who lost their lives&comma;” said Stefanik&comma; a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Donald Trump<&sol;a> acolyte&period; By piling the blame for every aspect of the disaster on China&comma; the GOP is clearly seeking to whitewash the ex-President’s disastrous mishandling of the crisis&period; While Trump’s team did vital work in funding vaccine development&comma; the question of how Covid-19 started hardly explains away why he denied&comma; downplayed and politicized the virus once it reached US shores&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;