News Snapshot:
In what must come as a shock to almost nobody, Lawrence Tabak, the acting director of the National Institutes of Health, confirmed that health officials in the United States had indeed complied with requests by Chinese scientists to hide preliminary genomic sequences of COVID-19 early in the pandemic. Tabak admitted during questioning at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday that the NIH had “withdrawn” the genomic data from public view, though it was still archived and remains on file, as reported by the New York Post. The admission, it should be noted, was couched amidst a great deal of...
