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 The paper is not yet peer-reviewed, and its findings should not yet be considered conclusive.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 eit...