On January 17, 2024, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the origins of COVID-19 released documents showing that Chinese researcher Dr Lili Ren, a co-investigator with Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, first submitted the SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence to the NIH’s GenBank genetic sequence database on December 28, 2019, two weeks before the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) first released the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence on January 11, 2020. [1, 2, 3,]
“Dr. Lili Ren, an accomplished virologist at the Institute of Pathogen Biology of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army. She is also a current subgrantee of non-profit EcoHealth Alliance on the same National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) grant as the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been debarred from receiving NIH grants for ten years for failing to provide laboratory records requested by NIH and for conducting research that “did lead or could lead to health issues or other unacceptable outcomes.” ”
Her sequence was “nearly identical to the to the sequence later made public by the China CDC on January 10, 2020″. The 2015 multi-year NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance, who partnered with Ren as a “co-investigator” received a salary from the grant money