Apparently, the World Health Organization isn’t the only institution taking its marching orders from Beijing.

A report from the Wall Street Journal this week revealed the U.S. National Institutes of Health deleted data on early COVID-19 carriers last year at the request of Chinese researchers. Chinese scientists had submitted the gene sequences of early coronavirus cases from January and February 2020 to the NIH but then demanded that the agency wipe the sequences from the database just three months later.