The families of four people who died from COVID-19 are taking EcoHealth Alliance to court. This organization, based in New York, was studying how bat coronaviruses change to become more dangerous in Wuhan, China, even before COVID-19 started there.
In a lawsuit filed on August 2 in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, the lawsuit says that EcoHealth and its leader, Peter Daszak, knew the virus could cause a worldwide pandemic.
The lawsuit also claims that EcoHealth not only made a...