Key congressman blasts HHS for lack of cooperation on Covid-19
A congressional committee investigating the Covid-19 pandemic could force HHS staffers to testify if the agency doesn't cooperate with its requests, the panel’s chairman said.
The Health and Human Services Department’s lack of cooperation with a congressional committee investigating the Covid-19 pandemic is “unacceptable” and could prompt the committee to force people to testify, the panel’s chairman said in a letter to the agency Friday.
The letter, shared exclusively with STAT, comes roughly two weeks after a top HHS official testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Republicans including Chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) were vocally frustrated with HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation Melanie Egorin’s responses to questions about Covid-19’s origins, shutdown policies, and federal messaging about vaccines.
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