NIH deleted COVID virus info at request of Wuhan researcher

Under the leadership of Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institutes of Health complied with the wishes of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and deleted information about the genetic sequencing of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to emails obtained by a nonpartisan whistleblower and government oversight group.

That compliance created consternation among scientists, the emails showed, reported Just the News.

The emails, obtained by a group called Empower Oversight through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show a Wuhan University researcher submitted virus sequence information to the NIH’s Sequence Read Archive then asked that it be deleted.

The documents also show an expert advised Collins and Fauci that Chinese data could undermine Beijing’s claim that the pandemic did not originate in the Wuhan lab but had a natural origin.

Fauci, in an interview with the BBC this week, was asked how he “could be so certain, so early on” that the pandemic had a natural origin, when he “knew so little about the virus.” – READ MORE