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Disgraced researcher Dr Peter Daszak revealed to a Congressional subcommittee that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is still in possession of 15,000 coronavirus samples that may belong to the US government through past taxpayer-funded research. 

Dr Daszak told the subcommittee: 'To the last of my knowledge, [samples] were in the freezers in Wuhan - over 15,000 of them.' 

The revelation came Wednesday in his testimony given at the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The president of EcoHealth Alliance also said the US government officials may have known of dangerous coronavirus experiments performed in the Wuhan lab where Covid-19 is believed to have originated years before the pandemic.

Despite this knowledge, the government continued to plug millions of taxpayer dollars into the experiments in China, a committee hearing has revealed.

Further, EHA, a New York-based research firm behind the research, is still receiving a staggering $16million a year in US taxpayer cash.

When asked if he knew whether the US intelligence services knew the Wuhan lab was being used to manufacture bioweapons, Dr Daszak responded: 'Two agencies I think have low-to-moderate confidence that there was some activity. 

He added: 'The other agencies were unable to comment.' 

The hearing comes as the subcommittee recommends Dr Daszak - who is British but lives in the US  - be criminally investigated and banned from receiving any future public funding, along with his company.

The zoologist has repeatedly tried to cover-up inquiries into the WIV's role in the pandemic. 

He and fellow infectious disease experts Ralph Baric and Linfa Wang circulated a statement that was later published in The Lancet in the early months of Covid in which 27 prominent scientists from nine countries strongly condemned 'conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.'

In a leaked email from 2020, however, Dr Daszak appeared to express gratitude to Dr Anthony Fauci for downplaying the theory the virus was created in a lab. 

Rep. Ronny Jackson, who sits on the subcommittee, told DailyMail.com in a statement: 'His direct role in providing funding for the Wuhan Lab and his lies and personal involvement in the COVID cover up that followed were directly responsible for the public health and economic disaster that followed.'

The subcommittee members also accused Dr Daszak of trying to downplay his collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and his organization's gain-of-function research. 

The chairman of the subcommittee Rep Brad Wenstrup gave a damning conclusion that the research firm was in fact performing dangerous research and declared the organization a 'threat to national security.'

'Dr Daszak has proven that he is not a responsible steward of the American people’s tax dollars,' he continued.

He said in a press release accompanying a new report about the scandal: 'Dr Daszak and his organization conducted dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute for Virology, willfully violated the terms of a multi-million-dollar NIH grant, and placed U.S. national security at risk.

'This blatant contempt for the American people is reprehensible. It is imperative to establish higher standards of oversight at the NIH. The Select Subcommittee’s detailed and comprehensive report today holds Dr Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance accountable and sheds light on severe shortcomings in our public health systems.'

However, other members of the subcommittee noted the report did not prove Covid came from a lab leak or that EHA was involved in any research.

In his exchanges with Dr Daszak, Rep Wenstrup pressed him on why, in 2018, he 'downplayed' his

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