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Redacted text3/22/2023 ![]() ![]() This version forms the basis of accusations that the virus was intentionally created as a bioweapon - which practically every credible scientist has dismissed as an illogical conspiracy, but was quickly embraced by former President Donald Trump and much of the American right wing, souring scientists, liberals, and the mainstream on the possibility of lab origin. The one that gained notoriety early in the pandemic is genetic engineering, where scientists insert and delete nucleotides in the virus’s genetic code, in this case viral RNA, to turn it into something new. The two methods represent two different ideas behind the so-called lab-leak hypothesis. The information released Tuesday for the first time reveals the content of notes taken on the February 1 call. Oversight Committee staff were able to view the full emails “in camera,” which means they could physically look at them and take notes but couldn’t take copies with them. The communications contained extensive notes summarizing what was said during the call, but their substance was hidden at the time. ![]() The redacted emails included the agenda for a February 1, 2020, telephone conference between National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci his then-boss, former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins and several of the world’s leading virologists. The letter, signed by James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was followed by pages of notes on emails that were first obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post, but were heavily redacted when published in June 2021. government officials wrestling with whether the novel coronavirus may have leaked out of a lab they were funding, acknowledging that it may have, and then keeping the discussion from spilling out into public view. On Tuesday, Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform released a letter that paints a damning picture of U.S.
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