The bill also targets any other countries 'that have intentionally misled the international community on the outbreak.' The bill would form a bipartisan, 9/11 style commission that would look into the origins of COVID-19 and the U.S. response, Fox said. It would be responsible for giving recommendations to the White House and Congress on what supplies needed to be American-made to combat a future physical or medical national disaster. Fitzpatrick sent out a strongly worded statement Monday - even before the White House shared declassified intelligence that said the U.S. intelligence community couldn't come to an agreement on the origins of the virus - urging 'we need answers now.' The intelligence community is split on its thinking on whether COVID-19 originated naturally, traveling from animal to human, or escaped from a Wuhan lab.

Source: Daily Mail May 28, 2021 12:36 UTC