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Comment by Mariannette Miller-Meeks

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U.S. representative from Iowa and physician who served on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
There is, as you said Dr. Metzl, extraordinary circumstantial evidence that this came from a lab. I don’t know why the authors didn’t want to state this, they did not want to have the scientific conversation and dialogue, why they wanted to obfuscate and suppress the truth, or even have a debate about the origins of COVID-19.
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Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, quoted in "COVID Origins Hearing Wrap Up: Facts, Science, Evidence Point to a Wuhan Lab Leak," U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, March 8, 2023.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified The quote is directly about the statement’s core claim: Miller-Meeks says there is "extraordinary circumstantial evidence" that COVID-19 "came from a lab," and the source page presents her remark in a hearing summary arguing the evidence points to a Wuhan lab leak. That makes the quote on-topic and gives a clearly determinable stance signal. ([oversight.house.gov](https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-origins-hearing-wrap-up-facts-science-evidence-point-to-a-wuhan-lab-leak%EF%BF%BC/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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AI Verified She says there is "extraordinary circumstantial evidence that this came from a lab" and accuses others of "obfuscat[ing] and suppress[ing] the truth." In the source page, this is presented as her questioning why evidence that COVID-19 may have originated from a lab was suppressed, which strongly implies support for the lab-origin view rather than natural spillover. ([oversight.house.gov](https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-origins-hearing-wrap-up-facts-science-evidence-point-to-a-wuhan-lab-leak%EF%BF%BC/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The March 8, 2023 House Oversight press release contains the exact two-sentence passage under Rep. Miller-Meeks’s remarks, including the wording about “extraordinary circumstantial evidence” and not wanting “to have the scientific conversation and dialogue.” The official hearing transcript from the same March 8, 2023 hearing also attributes the underlying longer statement to Dr. Miller-Meeks, corroborating the attribution. The stored author, date, source URL, and quote text are consistent with the web evidence. ([oversight.house.gov](https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-origins-hearing-wrap-up-facts-science-evidence-point-to-a-wuhan-lab-leak%EF%BF%BC/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3h ago
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