by Gabrielle M Etzel at Washington Examiner
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic issued its first subpoena, demanding the private communications of Dr. Kristian Andersen regarding the drafting and publication of a paper on the origins of the coronavirus that was cited by top officials and scientists in arguing against the hypothesis that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
“We are following the breadcrumbs of a COVID-19 cover-up straight to the source,” Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) said. “Dr. Kristian Andersen played a pivotal role in potentially suppressing the lab leak hypothesis, and Americans deserve to know why this happened, who was involved, and how we can prevent the intentional suppression of scientific discourse during a future pandemic.”
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Andersen, an immunology professor at Scripps Research, published an article titled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” with four other authors in Nature Medicine in March 2020 that discredited the lab-leak theory on the origins of the virus.
Andersen voluntarily testified before the subcommittee on June 16, during which he indicated that the primary mechanism for communication on the paper was via the instant messaging platform Slack. He also said in his testimony that his co-authors would not consent to communicating with the subcommittee voluntarily.
A copy of the subpoena obtained by the Washington Examiner reveals that Andersen will be required to testify before the entire subcommittee, as well as present all Slack communications from Jan. 1, 2020, to June 23, 2023, regarding the “drafting, publication, and critical reception” of the paper published in Nature Medicine.
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