Chinese Scientists Shared Coronavirus Data with US Before Pandemic

Written by on January 19, 2024

In late December 2019, eight pages of genetic code were sent to computers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Unbeknown to American officials at the time, the genetic map that had landed on their doorstep contained critical clues about the virus that would soon touch off a pandemic.

The genetic code, submitted by Chinese scientists to a vast public repository of sequencing data run by the U.S. government, described a mysterious new virus that had infected a 65-year . . .



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