McKenna Dallmeyer
Texas Senior Campus Correspondent

@redwave1776 on May 02, 2020 at 2:39 PM EDT

• The University of Texas is under investigation by the Department of Education.
• A letter sent to UT requests records of the university’s ties to the Wuhan biolab being investigated as the possible source of the coronavirus.

The Department of Education sent a letter to the University of Texas requesting all records pertaining to its dealings with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel sent a letter to University of Texas Chancellor James Milliken on April 24 requesting records related to the University’s dealings with Chinese state-owned companies and universities.

“Unfortunately, the more we dig, the more we find that too many are underreporting or not reporting at all.”

The letter states that the University of Texas had “substantial contractual relations” with a Wuhan based maximum biocontainment laboratory (Wuhan MCL) also called the Wuhan Institute of Virology. MCLs “operate at the highest level of biological containment to diagnose, perform research on, and validate cures for life-threatening diseases.”

The U.S. laboratory involved, the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), one of America’s fourteen Bio Safety Level 4 laboratories, is operated by the University of Texas’ Medical Branch Institute for Human Infections and Immunity […]

Via https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14813