The panel, formed by a new Republican majority, is aiming to establish how the coronavirus emerged.
By Nomia Iqbal at the hearing & Sam CabralThe origins of Covid-19 are being explored by a US congressional committee in a first hearing in Washington.
The committee of nine Republicans and seven Democrats has said it would aim to conduct its work above partisanship. The congressman said the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr David Duke, had endorsed a 2014 book by Mr Wade, which argued races evolved differently. He told the committee it was "not scientifically plausible" to him that the virus had natural origins.
The market is near a world-leading virus laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which conducted research into coronaviruses.
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