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(READ) Republicans question NIH removal of Covid-19 data at request of Chinese

Dated: July 9, 2021 by Sharyl Attkisson 6 Comments

      

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Roger Marshall (R-KS), have expressed concern to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over China's requests to have the NIH delete Covid data from an archive.

The senators wrote a letter to the Director of the NIH, Francis S. Collins, after Chinese researchers requested NIH “delete gene sequences of early COVID-19 cases from a key scientific database,” and NIH “confirmed that it deleted the sequences after receiving a request from a Chinese researcher who had submitted them three months earlier.”

Read the full letter below:

"Dear Dr. Collins:  On June 23, 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese researchers “directed” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “to delete gene sequences of early COVID-19 cases from a key scientific database,” called the NIH Sequence Read Archive. The article states that NIH confirmed that it deleted the sequences. The article further reports that the deleted data includes genomic sequences from SARS-CoV-2 and that these sequences were from viral samples collected in Wuhan “in January and February 2020” from patients in the hospital. This type of data may contain important and relevant information that could help to better determine the virus’s origins. The efforts by Chinese researchers to delete the data demands additional explanation. As you are aware, the Chinese government has failed, from the beginning, to be open and transparent with the world with respect to its role in the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 600,000 deaths, and Congress has spent trillions of dollars to support the American people, businesses, and the economy during these difficult times. Simply put, the American people deserve to know what their government knows about the origins of this global illness. As part of our continuing oversight with respect to NIH’s role during the COVID-19 pandemic, we request additional information about the NIH Sequence Read Archive and the actions taken by Chinese researchers to have NIH delete SARS-CoV-2 related data. Accordingly, please answer the following no later than July 12, 2021: 

  1. Please describe, in detail, how and under what circumstances data can be provided to the NIH Sequence Read Archive and how and under what circumstances data can be deleted from the same.
  2. With respect to deleting data from the NIH Sequence Archive, please name all personnel that have the authority to do so. In your answer, please provide the names and titles of the personnel that were involved in the deletion of SARS-CoV-2 data.
  3. With respect to the Wall Street Journal report, which Chinese researcher(s) requested that the data be deleted from the NIH Sequence Read Archive? When was the request made and when did the deletion occur?
  4. After deletion, does the NIH Sequence Read Archive maintain any accessible back-up of the deleted data? If so, please provide all records to us.
  5. Please list all collaborating partners to the NIH Sequence Read Archive.
  6. In the past five years, how many researchers and other personnel associated with the communist Chinese government have requested that data be deleted from the NIH Sequence Read Archive? Please list by requestor, date, reason, and the information to be deleted. Please also note whether and when that material was in fact deleted.
  7. More specifically, in the past five years, how many researchers and other personnel associated with the communist Chinese government have requested that data be deleted from the NIH Sequence Read Archive relating to coronaviruses? Please list by requestor, date, reason, and the information to be deleted. Please also note whether and when that material was in fact deleted.

 Thank you for your attention to this important matter."

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  1. Ruth says

    July 9, 2021 at 9:39 am

    So the NIH uses our tax dollars but takes direction from the Chinese Communists?! HELLO!!!, What is wrong with this picture?!!!

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    • Susan says

      July 9, 2021 at 11:46 pm

      Exactly.

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  2. Jim33707 says

    July 9, 2021 at 9:48 am

    Some smart researcher has already recovered copies of the deleted Chinese "NIH Sequence Read Archive" . That is a certainty.

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    • RJM says

      July 9, 2021 at 1:01 pm

      Thinking the same. Records are never really deleted... just channeled elsewhere.

      Reply
  3. Marc Maximilien Authier says

    July 9, 2021 at 11:17 am

    And behind criminal communist China regime, hides Dr Fauci, the criminals from the CDC, the criminals from US big pharma and GAVI's Bill Gates and the 20 billion dollars killing he did with this pseudo accident. Remember EVENT 201 but also the Rockerfeller Foundation report. There is no such thing as an accident. This crap was done all by design. The EU another criminal organization pretendind being democratic introduce the QR Code vaccine passport project 18 months in advance of the event. No smoke without a fire. Their game plan is medical tyranny like we saw in Nazi Germany in the 30s. Quite clear now. And China is not alone in the crime of the century.

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  4. GEORGE EADY says

    July 9, 2021 at 11:31 am

    THE ANSWER IS HERE EASY. IT IS DAMAGE CONTROL. AND DAMAGE CONTROL IS ONLY NEEDED WHEN THERE IS SOMETHING TO HIDE . AND BY THEM DOING THIS IT SAYS WITH OUT A DOUGHT. THERE BOUGHT AND OWNED. AND THAT IS THE PLEG THAT IS OVER TACKING THIS NATION RIGHT NOW . AMERICA AS IT HAS BEEN FOR EVERY IS ON ITS WAY OUT .AND WHAT WILL REPLACE IT IS NOT 1/10 OF WHAT THIS NATION WAS

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