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China’s leadership has thus far declined to help with a global investigation into the pandemic’s roots. Now, the NIH director has confirmed that the agency hid COVID origins at the request of Chinese scientists. Acting director of the National Institutes of Health Lawrence Tabak admitted to legislators on Wednesday that US health officials withheld initial COVID-19 genome sequences at the request of Chinese scientists, but said the information remained on file. Tabak informed a House Appropriations subcommittee that the National Institutes of Health “eliminated from public view” data from the pandemic hotspot in Wuhan, China, before clarifying that investigators can...
