Hill January 17, 2024
A Chinese researcher submitted a virus sequence of COVID-19 to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) database in December 2019, two weeks before Beijing released the virus’s genome sequence, according to federal documents obtained by a House committee.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee obtained documents from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirming that Lili Ren, a virologist at the Institute of Pathogen Biology of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, submitted data to the NIH GenBank on Dec. 28, 2019. GenBank is a genetic sequence database maintained by the NIH.
The two-week lag between when the sequence was submitted to the U.S. database and eventually released publicly by China appears to bolster claims that Beijing...
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