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 'changed virus,' but also tried to hide where the outbreak started.
"If we had known the source or origin of this virus and had not been misled that it was from a pangolin in a wet market, and rather we knew that it was a genetically manipulated virus, and that the scientists involved were concealing that from our clients, the outcome could have been very different," victims' attorney Patricia Finn told the New York Post.
The families of Mary Conroy, of Pennsylvania; Emma D. Holley, of Ro...