Exhibit 117 ยท Agency correspondence, known secondhand
NIH letter to Congress on the EcoHealth Alliance grant (Tabak letter)
FactCheck.org quotes an NIH letter to Congress of 20 October 2021, stating that in a 'limited experiment' under the EcoHealth grant, laboratory mice infected with the chimeric SHC014/WIV1 bat coronavirus became sicker than mice infected with WIV1, and that EcoHealth failed to report the finding right away as the grant required. FactCheck.org reports that NIH maintained that the work did not meet its P3CO definition of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research.
- Source
- Lawrence Tabak, Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health; reported by FactCheck.org
- Date
- 20 October 2021
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/scicheck-republicans-spin-nih-letter-about-coronavirus-gain-of-function-research/
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The October 20, 2021 NIH letter to EcoHealth is listed in the HHS debarment record (hhs-2025-ecohealth-debarment).