1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Holding the Chinese Communist Party Accountable for Infecting Americans Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Chinese Communist Party covered up the existence and downplayed the seriousness of SARS-CoV-2, hereinafter referred to as COVID-19, at least as early as December 2019. (2) Chinese government officials engaged in a campaign to silence and delegitimize doctors—including Dr. Li Wenliang—who were warning their colleagues and others about COVID-19. (3) Chinese government officials ordered the destruction of laboratory samples and research regarding COVID-19 in January 2020. (4) Chinese government officials have detained or otherwise silenced researchers, journalists, and citizens who attempted to share information that could have proven unflattering to the Chinese government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. (5) Chinese government officials have expelled American journalists who were covering the COVID-19 outbreak in China. (6) Chinese government officials have attempted to censor or destroy academic research into COVID-19 and its origins that might disagree with the official positions of the Chinese government. (7) Chinese government officials have intentionally underreported or altered official numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths in China, leading world health experts to make flawed analyses that severely underestimated the nature and seriousness of COVID-19. (8) Academic studies have shown that, had appropriate interventions occurred to stop the spread of COVID-19 even just weeks earlier, the spread of COVID-19 would have been severely curtailed. (9) The cover-up of COVID-19 by the Chinese government has caused significant economic harm in the United States and around the world. (10) The cover-up of COVID-19 by the Chinese government has caused significant death and injury in the United States and around the world. (11) The cover-up of COVID-19 by the Chinese government is, at minimum, grossly negligent behavior causing