"Senators Investigate Fauci-Run Montana Lab for Covid-like Virus Research"

Republican Senators Joni Ernst and Eric Schmitt are demanding answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding a laboratory in Montana, Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), where US taxpayer money was used to manipulate coronaviruses before the pandemic. The lab, which has a history of protocol breaches, collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018 to infect bats with a 'SARS-like' virus. The senators' letter to the NIH raises concerns about risky research, biosafety incidents, lab animal sourcing, and collaborations with EcoHealth Alliance. They also question the NIH's continued collaboration with EcoHealth Alliance, which they claim violated grant policies and may have caused the Covid-19 pandemic. The senators demand transparency and accountability regarding RML's past, present, and future experiments with dangerous pathogens.