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GOP Lawmakers Want Briefing On $1.3Bn Spent On Chinese COVID-19 Tests

24 Oct 2022

A letter sent by 13 House Committee on Oversight and Reform members to HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra asks for information on purchases of tests made overseas, as well as efforts to develop and manufacture diagnostics for future infectious disease outbreaks within the US.

A woman's hands holding a free iHealth COVID-19 Antigen rapid test kit ordered from USPS website and a smartphone showing the iHealth COVID-19 Test app login page. — iHealth is one of the Chinese-owned suppliers of COVID-19 tests to the US government, which is coming under House GOP scrutiny. • Source: Shutterstock

Congressional Republicans are pressing the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to account for why the government is buying COVID-19 testing kits from China, rather than investing in domestically produced diagnostics.

Thirteen Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform signed the 19 October letter to HHS Sec....