SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The Department of State released a fact 
sheet on January 15, 2021, about the Wuhan Insti-
tute of Virology (WIV) which stated the following: 
(A) ‘‘The U.S. government has reason to 
believe that several researchers inside the WIV 
became sick in autumn 2019, before the first 
identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms 
consistent with both COVID–19 and common 
seasonal illnesses.’’. 
(B) ‘‘WIV researchers conducted experi-
ments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus 
identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its 
closest sample to SARS-CoV-2.’’. 
(C) ‘‘Despite the WIV presenting itself as 
a civilian institution, the United States has de-
termined that the WIV has collaborated on pub-
lications and secret projects with China’s mili-
tary.’’. 
(2) Former Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, stated in 
March 2021 that, ‘‘the most likely etiology of this 
pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory’’ and 
noted that, ‘‘[i]t is not unusual for respiratory 
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pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory 
to infect the laboratory worker.’’. 
(3) Director-General of the World Health Orga-
nization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowl-
edged in March 2021 that the Coronavirus Disease 
2019 (COVID–19) may have originated in a labora-
tory and said this hypothesis ‘‘requires further inves-
tigation, potentially with additional missions involv-
ing specialist experts.’’. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) identifying the origin of Coronavirus Dis-
ease 2019 (COVID–19) is critical for preventing a 
similar pandemic from occurring in the future; 
(2) there is reason to believe the COVID–19 
pandemic may have originated at the Wuhan Insti-
tute of Virology; and 
(3) the Director of National Intelligence should 
declassify and make available to the public as much 
information as possible about the origin of COVID– 
19 so the United States and like-minded countries 
can— 
(A) identify the origin of COVID–19 as ex-
peditiously as possible, and 
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(B) use that information to take all appro-
priate measures to prevent a similar pandemic 
from occurring again. 
SEC. 4. DECLASSIFICATION OF INFORMATION RELATED TO 
THE ORIGIN OF COVID–19. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall— 
(1) declassify any and all information relating 
to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Vi-
rology and the origin of the Coronavirus Disease 
2019 (COVID–19), including— 
(A) activities performed by the Wuhan In-
stitute of Virology with or on behalf of the Peo-
ple’s Liberation Army; 
(B) coronavirus research or other related 
activities performed at the Wuhan Institute of 
Virology prior to the outbreak of COVID–19; 
and 
(C) researchers at the Wuhan Institute of 
Virology who fell ill in autumn 2019, including 
for any such researcher— 
(i) the researcher’s name; 
(ii) the researcher’s symptoms; 
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(iii) the date of the onset of the re-
searcher’s symptoms; 
(iv) the researcher’s role at the 
Wuhan Institute of Virology; 
(v) whether the researcher was in-
volved with or exposed to coronavirus re-
search at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; 
(vi) whether the researcher visited a 
hospital while they were ill; and 
(vii) a description of any other actions 
taken by the researcher that may suggest 
they were experiencing a serious illness at 
the time; and 
(2) submit to Congress an unclassified report 
that contains— 
(A) all of the information described under 
paragraph (1); and 
(B) only such redactions as the Director 
determines necessary to protect sources and 
methods without altering or obscuring in any 
way the information described under paragraph 
(1). 
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