Fauci Agency Knew Chinese Authorities Were Withholding COVID-19 Data in January 2020, Documents Show

The U.S. State Department and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases were aware in January 2020 that Chinese authorities were withholding COVID-19 data, according to government documents obtained by a legal watchdog organization.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health also sent "Experts" from the NIH-supported P4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch to train technicians at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in "Lab management and maintenance"-nearly two years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic-the records obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said he believes the 90 pages of communication records between the NIH and the Wuhan lab show that Dr. Anthony Fauci's agency, NIAID, has been "Hiding information on China's failure to provide essential data on COVID-19.".

"As of January 7, the Wuhan Health Commission has reported 59 local cases of pneumonia with unknown cause," the embassy email said.

Lab technicians from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were also directly trained by NIH-supported experts in April 2018.

"In addition to French assistance, experts from the NIH-supported P4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have trained Wuhan lab technicians in lab management and maintenance" an email date April 19, 2018 said.

"The Wuhan institute plans to invite scientists from the Galveston lab to do research in Wuhan's lab. One Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher trained for two years at the Galveston lab, and the institute also sent one scientist to U.S. CDC headquarters in Atlanta for six months' work on influenza."

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