1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Li Wenliang Global Public Health Accountability Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On January 3, 2020, the leading public health authority in the People’s Republic of China, the National Health Commission, directed all Chinese research institutions to cease publicly publishing any information related to a then unknown SARS-like virus, and ordered them to destroy existing samples of the virus or transfer them to approved testing sites. (2) On December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang warned his medical school classmates of an outbreak of an unknown SARS-like virus over WeChat. (3) On January 3, 2020, Wuhan’s Public Security Bureau detained, questioned, and forced Dr. Li Wenliang and seven other doctors to sign a letter confessing he had made false comments that severely disturbed the social order . (4) On February 7, 2020, one month after checking into Wuhan Central Hospital, Dr. Li Wenliang died of a severe case of coronavirus disease 2019 (commonly known as COVID-19 ). (5) China’s National Health Commission publicly denied COVID–19 was person-to-person transmissible until January 15, 2020, despite having uncovered contrary evidence in late December 2019 and being alerted of the transmissibility of COVID–19 on January 1, 2020. (6) China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Zhao Lijian, claimed that COVID–19 originated in the United States and that the United States Army brought the virus to Wuhan to wage biological warfare on China. (7) Other Chinese Government officials, including scientists working on China’s COVID–19 response, China’s Ambassador to South Africa and China’s Ambassador to Australia have claimed that there is no evidence that COVID–19 originated in China. (8) A study by the University of Southampton found that had China taken action 3 weeks earlier, the spread of COVID-19 could have been reduced by 95 percent. (9) On July 21, 2020, Representative Adam Smith defended the Chinese Government’s hiding the true nature of COVID-19 when he said,