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

Published June 25, 2021 12:05am ET



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.

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