NIH "hid" COVID Gene sequences early on

[hurnik]

Thought this was interesting.

Vanity Fair article (should let you see it at least once):

“This Shouldn’t Happen”: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy

Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked...

www.vanityfair.com

And slightly updated info from NIH Director Tabak:

NIH director confirms agency hid early COVID genes at request of Chinese scientists

National Institutes of Health Acting Director Lawrence Tabek confirmed that US health officials concealed early genomic sequences of COVID-19 at the request of Chinese scientists.

nypost.com

 

[bluehende]

We have hashed this out before. From the article

Bloom established that the NIH itself had deleted the sequences from its own archive at the request of researchers in Wuhan

If the Chinese scientists wanted to delete their sequences from the database, which NIH policy entitled them to do, it was unethical for Bloom to analyze them further

Also if you google this issue the sequence was published elsewhere the same day.

 

[MrockStar]

More nonsense from the NIH. :-/