Posted on 05/12/2022 3:29:14 PM PDT by lowbridge
National Institutes of Health acting director Lawrence Tabak confirmed to lawmakers Wednesday that US health officials concealed early genomic sequences of COVID-19 at the request of Chinese scientists — but insisted the data remains on file.
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Vanity Fair recently reported that the information was hidden in response to a request from Chinese scientists, despite potentially resolving whether the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or passed naturally from animals to humans.
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) asked Tabek to explain why US officials would comply with such a request.
“There’s no question that the communication that we had about the sequence archive — Sequence Read Archive — could have been improved. I freely admit that,” Tabek said. “If I may, the archive never deleted the sequence, it just did not make it available for interrogation.”
“So wait, you have the information still?” Beutler followed up.
“We have the information … Anybody who submits to the Sequence Read Archive is allowed to ask for it to be removed,” Tabak explained. “And that investigator did do that. But we never erase it.”
“So you don’t have the information anymore?” Beutler asked.
“We do. We never erase the information. We keep it,” Tabak clarified.
“So they were able to withdraw public viewing of it?” the congresswoman followed up.
“That’s correct,” he said.
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In a March 31 article, Vanity Fair reported that evolutionary biologist Jesse Bloom discovered last year that early COVID-19 sequences had disappeared from a federally run data repository.
When Bloom raised the issue, he was reportedly ganged up on by a group of researchers assembled by then-NIH Director Francis Collins and infectious disease institute head Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Criminal
Crimes against humanity.
Of course.
Collins and Fauci need waterboarded until they talk. It would be a shame if they drowned.
I guess the Democrats have to ask the Chinese before they can go to the bathroom.
crime against humanity
‘acting director’ ???
What happened to the woman who was there ???
The current regime is at war with We the People.
WTAF...
some people need an extrajudicial visit
So China controls our NIH.
Wow.
F’rs...
So China controls our NIH.
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Also the WHO
( through cut outs as usual )
They are sure doing everything they can trying to deny that this virus came out of a lab, Gee I wonder why.
Gee, Quackony? Were you “involved?”
Vanity Fair shouting “squirrel”.
Biden want to pass authority to WHO to declare emergencies in THIS country!
biden proved the kung flu is a scam when he waltzed into the white house, disbanded trump’s “operation warp speed”, opened our southern border, and continues to covertly spread over 2,000,000 nondocumented unvaccinated invaders across our country during a supposed “global pandemic” while anthony fauci, the cdc, the nih, the world health organization, the enemedia, hollywierd, and the majority of our elected representatives sit back and watch...
trust our government to protect you and your health at your own peril...
“In the way that it was originally eliminated from public view, it was withdrawn, and that’s the most difficult for people to access,” Tabak replied. “The error that was made, and we found this out after a review of all of our processes, was it should have been suppressed. The distinction being that if it’s withdrawn, it is kept archivally on a tape drive — old technology, but that’s how it’s done. But when it is withdrawn, it can still be accessed by accession number, and so researchers are able to access that information.”
Ah yes, an “error was made”. Just like the mysterious error that deleted all the backups of key months of Peter Strzok and his lover’s text messages. “Errors”.
Deadliest pandemic in a century, and the National Institutes of Health HIDE the key to figuring out how to treat it.
Anyone got a gallows handy?
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