Day: June 23, 2021

Congress is investigating whether the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan was a covid-19 superspreader event

Congress is investigating whether the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan was a covid-19 superspreader event

In October 2019, more than 9,000 international athletes from more than 100 countries traveled to Wuhan, China — and many of them later got sick with covid-19-like symptoms. But there has never been a real investigation into whether the virus that causes covid-19 was already spreading at the Wuhan Military World Games. Now, multiple U.S. lawmakers are demanding the U.S. government begin one.

COVID-19 gene data removed from NIH database on Chinese researchers’ request

COVID-19 gene data removed from NIH database on Chinese researchers’ request

The removal of the sequencing data is described in a new paper posted online Tuesday by Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The paper, which hasn’t been peer reviewed, says the missing data include sequences from virus samples collected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January and February of 2020 from patients hospitalized with or suspected of having COVID-19.