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NIH defends deleting COVID-19 genetic data pointing to lab leak origin

Print this article The National Institutes of Health defended its decision to delete its record of the genetic sequencing of COVID-19 cases from early in the coronavirus pandemic, apparently done at the request of Chinese researchers. The revelation was revealed by a U.S. virologist who discovered the information was scrubbed from the NIH database. This comes as the United States and its allies seek to determine if the virus sprang from a mysterious lab in Wuhan, China, which stymied an earlier investigation by the World Health Organization dismissing the lab theory. “Here I identify a data set containing SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early in the Wuhan epidemic that has been deleted from the NIH’s Sequence Read Archive, noted Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in a scientific paper released Tuesday. I recover the deleted files from the Google Cloud, and reconstruct partial sequences of 13 early epidemic viruses.”

Chinese scientists deleted key data that could help identify origins of COVID-19, study claims

An American scientist recovered the deleted data from cloud storage and published his analysis Tuesday. The paper, “Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic,” suggests that early virus samples from the Wuhan seafood market that until now have been the focus of most studies on the origins of the pandemic “are not fully representative of the viruses actually present in Wuhan at that time.” The paper is not yet peer-reviewed, and its findings should not yet be considered conclusive. The recovered virus samples do not support either the “lab leak” hypothesis or the

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