READ: House COVID-19 pandemic panel’s final report

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s COVID-19 panel issued its final report on Monday ahead of a hearing this week.

The report yields five points of bipartisan consensus and seven findings. The report addresses the origins of the virus; U.S. funding for the lab in Wuhan, China, from which the report states the virus almost certainly leaked; mask mandates and lockdowns; Operation Warp Speed’s vaccine development, and more.

“A future pandemic requires a whole of America response managed by those without personal benefit or bias. We can always do better, and for the sake of future generations of Americans, we must,” committee Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) wrote in a letter ahead of the report.

Read the full report here.