The Senate voted unanimously — at the behest of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) — to pass a bill known as the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.
Brown requested unanimous consent for the bill, which was granted with no objections from a single member of the Senate.
If the House passes the bill — which is almost certain to happen — the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, will have 90 days to declassify the following intel relating to:
- Potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the Hong Kong Fluey
- Activities performed by the Wuhan Institute of Virology with or on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army (that’s the Chinese Communist Army)
- Coronavirus research or other related activities performed at the Wuhan lab
- A list of researchers who became sick while working in the Wuhan lab, as well as their full names, symptoms suffered, and the dates the symptoms began, as well as their positions at the Wuhan lab.
