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Mail monkey pics/GettyImages On Wednesday, an American professor and virologist posted what he says is evidence that critical data from the earliest confirmed COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China, was “deleted,” thus potentially eliminating key information on how the virus originated and how long it had been spreading in its early stages. In a preprint study published Friday titled “Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic,” Professor Jesse Bloom, a virologist from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, explained that he discovered a data set of 45 positive samples from Wuhan...
