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New documents show US officials knew China was withholding data, trained Wuhan Institute scientists

Published March 2, 2022 3:56pm

 

FIRST ON FOX: A legal watchdog organization has released 90 pages of communication records between the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Wuhan Institute of Virology on the subject of grants to the now-infamous laboratory.

 

Judicial Watch obtained the records, first obtained by Fox News Digital, via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The emails draw attention to records between the State Department and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), run by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that suggest U.S. officials were aware of the Chinese Communist Party withholding key information on the coronavirus before the pandemic outbreak.

 

"These FOIA documents show that Fauci’s agency has been hiding information on China’s failure to provide essential data on COVID-19," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Fox News Digital. "The slow-rolling and stonewalling by Fauci’s agency on China, gain of function, and its COVID response generally is pure obstruction."

 

In a Jan. 7, 2020 email sent from the American Embassy in Beijing titled "PRC Response to Pneumonia Cases Shows Increased Transparency Over Past Outbreaks, but Gaps in Epidemiological Data Remain," officials express concern that a lack of "basic epidemiologic information" was hindering risk assessment and strategic cooperation for scientists outside China.

 

"While [People's Republic of China (PRC)] health officials have released timely and open general information about the outbreak, a lack of epidemiological data, including an ‘epi curve’ (a summary of dates of onset of the illness), characteristics of infected individuals and other basic epidemiological information hinders better risk assessment and response by public health officials," the email stated.

 

"Authorities have also not released information on how they are defining a ‘case.’ Given these gaps in detailed information to-date, and lack of a final confirmed pathogen, the risk to the United States and global health is difficult to assess at this time.

 

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