Chinese Lab Sequenced COVID-19 Weeks Before Beijing Disclosed Data

Published on January 17, 2024

A China-based researcher had already mapped the COVID-19 sequence two weeks before China’s ruling communist regime revealed such details to the world, raising questions about what other crucial pandemic information Beijing may have buried from view. Documents released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee reveal that Ren Lili, a Beijing-based recipient of U.S. federal grants through the New York nonprofit research group EcoHealth Alliance who remains a current subgrantee, uploaded COVID-19 sequencing data to a U.S. government genetic database on Dec. 28, 2019. At the time, Chinese authorities were still calling the disease an unknown pneumonia and ordered health workers not to spread any information around it with threat of penalty....

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