Families of COVID victims sue EcoHealth Alliance over alleged virus release.
New York-based EcoHealth Alliance Faces Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Origins
The families of four individuals who contracted and died from COVID-19 are suing EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based organization. They claim that the lab bears responsibility for the pandemic and the deaths of their loved ones.
The families allege that the health alliance, which previously received a U.S. grant for bat virus research that partly funded studies at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is responsible for “either intentionally or accidentally” releasing COVID-19. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month at Manhattan Supreme Court, seeks unspecified damages.
“If we had known the source or origin of this virus and had not been misled that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, and rather we knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus, and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients, the outcome could have been very different,” said Patricia Finn, a lawyer representing the families.
The lawsuit also alleges that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak knew about the virus being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that the organization was aware of its potential to cause a worldwide pandemic.
“[The families of the deceased] are definitely in mourning, but moreover they’re enraged because the truth of what really happened appears to be coming forward,” Finn added.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Mary Conroy, Emma D. Holley, Larry Carr, and Raul Osuna.
Controversy Surrounding EcoHealth Alliance
Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance have faced increasing scrutiny over their connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Several government agencies believe that COVID-19 likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Daszak was part of the World Health Organization-China team that dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as “extremely unlikely.”
The alliance collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on coronavirus research, supported by millions of dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health. Last year, the group denied claims by the NIH that it failed to properly report its findings.
Dr. Andrew Huff, a former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, believes that COVID-19 was genetically engineered and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He has attributed some of the blame to foreign groups working in China.
“EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Huff wrote in a book published earlier this year.
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Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.
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