Calls grow for ouster of Wuhan lab-tied Daszak as head of NYC health nonprofit

A group of international scientists and health experts has called for the board of New York nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance to remove Dr. Peter Daszak as president in the wake of reporting about his ties to a Chinese lab where the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated. The letter — which was dated Thursday and was also sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins and White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci — accused the British-born Daszak of having "concealed several extreme situations of conflict of interest, withheld critical information…