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Wuhan Lab Can Delete 'Secret Files' in Legal Agreement With U.S. Lab
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has requested a partnering lab in the United States destroy all record of their work, a document obtained by the U.S. Right to Know indicated.www.newsmax.com
Well, isn't that convenient.
Very convenient....
But according to Vanity Fair, when an evolutionary biologist named Jesse D. Bloom sent a draft of an unpublished scientific paper he'd written to Dr. Anthony Fauci, about how records of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences published paper from China vanished without a trace, Bloom established that the National Institute of Health (NIH) itself had deleted the sequences from its own archive at the request of researchers in Wuhan.
These "sequences," Vanity Fair notes, "map the nucleotides that give a virus its unique genetic identity," and "are key to tracking when the virus emerged and how it might have evolved."
Deleting data on SARS-CoV-2 could mean the true origins of the virus might never be known.