by John-Michael Dumais, Childrens Health Defense:

Documents obtained via a FOIA request reveal NIH officials, including former Director Francis Collins, supported a plan to avoid answering congressional inquiries about a grant NIH awarded to a nonprofit to conduct controversial coronavirus research in Wuhan, China, according to journalist Paul Thacker.

Newly disclosed emails reveal that top officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) planned to provide Congress with a response that “doesn’t actually answer the questions” about a grant the agency awarded to a nonprofit for controversial research conducted in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.