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Facts Matter!
We have an outdated system. It's obvious that we here in the USA, have some people using this for partisan political purposes. This should be mainly a scientific issue, dealing with GenBank and worldwide reporting systems. But realities being what they are, if we are to stay on top of future diseases that spread into a pandemic ...

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In late December 2019, eight pages of genetic code were sent to computers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
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One of the submitters, Lili Ren, who worked at a pathogen institute within the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Dr. Ren’s team worked to sequence the virus.
The swab containing the virus they analyzed was taken from the 65-year-old patient, a vendor at the large market where the illness was first seen spreading, on Dec. 24, 2019.
One of the submitters, Lili Ren, who worked at a pathogen institute within the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, did not respond to a request for comment. The Chinese embassy said China’s response was “science-based, effective and consistent with China’s national realities.”
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Facts Matter!
We have an outdated system. It's obvious that we here in the USA, have some people using this for partisan political purposes. This should be mainly a scientific issue, dealing with GenBank and worldwide reporting systems. But realities being what they are, if we are to stay on top of future diseases that spread into a pandemic ...

snippet:
In late December 2019, eight pages of genetic code were sent to computers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
...
One of the submitters, Lili Ren, who worked at a pathogen institute within the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, did not respond to a request for comment.
...
Dr. Ren’s team worked to sequence the virus.
The swab containing the virus they analyzed was taken from the 65-year-old patient, a vendor at the large market where the illness was first seen spreading, on Dec. 24, 2019.
One of the submitters, Lili Ren, who worked at a pathogen institute within the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, did not respond to a request for comment. The Chinese embassy said China’s response was “science-based, effective and consistent with China’s national realities.”

Before the Coronavirus Pandemic, Overlooked Clues From Chinese Scientists
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.

Before the Coronavirus Pandemic, Overlooked Clues From Chinese Scientists
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.
There was an older thread relating to the facts:

China: Facts Regarding Wuhan in 2020
There is much to absorb and think about in the linked article. excerpts: This editorial is part of a series examining the inner workings of authoritarianism around the world. In the first weeks of 2020, a radiologist at Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, China, saw looming signs of trouble. He was a...

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Opinion | In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet.
China's leaders covered up the pandemic at first — as described by doctors and other health-care professionals on the front lines.
