NIH head rebuts lab-leak talk

By AI HEPING in New York | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-02-10 12:29

The acting head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that viruses studied at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, didn't show any resemblance to the COVID-19 virus that eventually spread around the world.

Dr Lawrence Tabak, told a US House of Representatives panel Wednesday that to suggest otherwise would be like "saying that a human is equivalent to a cow".

He made his comments at a hearing before members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by Republicans who now control the House.